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Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by bobo888 » Sat, Jul 09, 2011, 7:19 AM UTC

farlington wrote: post #25

Beautiful and functional. There are things to nitpick of course, but this is light years ahead of the old blogger. It's nice to see Google making a concerted effort to elevate the design of products across their portfolio. I used to think that visual design wasn't much of an institutional priority for G, but they've proven that wrong.

Am I the only one who thinks that the new design colours are somewhat bleached? I would like more contrast.

I also find the "Reading List" from my Blogger account homepage to be useless. If I want to subscribe to a feed, Google Reader is a much better option.

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by jannes » Sat, Jul 09, 2011, 9:01 AM UTC

It seems that they have been working on this for a long time, as you can see in this video that they've put up in March: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhFc6GqVdU#t=97s

I think it's really interesting to see what huge amounts of time goes into these redesigns at a company like Google. It's very different from what I do.

It's also interesting to see how the design has evolved from what they showed in March to what they finally arrived at.

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 09, 2011, 10:00 AM UTC

nametoremember wrote: post #17

forgotusername wrote: post #11

It's pretty, but I'm left wondering why they bothered to launch it without the Google+ "funeral bar" integrated, or whatever you want to call it. I find these UI refreshes an irksome feature of web software. They tend to appear on a day and time when you're most stressed, horking their newfangled wares with pop-ups that only do harm to the software's usability. Recent examples: the new Facebook chat sidebar abominati…

Have you nicknamed the Google bar as the "funeral bar" because it's dark? Are all dark things funeral things?

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Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by espeed » Sat, Jul 09, 2011, 10:01 AM UTC

forgotusername wrote: post #11

It's pretty, but I'm left wondering why they bothered to launch it without the Google+ "funeral bar" integrated, or whatever you want to call it. I find these UI refreshes an irksome feature of web software. They tend to appear on a day and time when you're most stressed, horking their newfangled wares with pop-ups that only do harm to the software's usability. Recent examples: the new Facebook chat sidebar abominati…

You mean the "black bar".

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

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Post by omaranto » Sat, Jul 09, 2011, 11:56 AM UTC

nametoremember wrote: post #17

forgotusername wrote: post #11

It's pretty, but I'm left wondering why they bothered to launch it without the Google+ "funeral bar" integrated, or whatever you want to call it. I find these UI refreshes an irksome feature of web software. They tend to appear on a day and time when you're most stressed, horking their newfangled wares with pop-ups that only do harm to the software's usability. Recent examples: the new Facebook chat sidebar abominati…

Have you nicknamed the Google bar as the "funeral bar" because it's dark? Are all dark things funeral things?

Is that how nicknames work? If a nickname is a reference to a specific aspect of someone or something need it apply to all people or things sharing that characteristic?

Re: Try Blogger's New Interface

#36

Post by coliveira » Sat, Jul 09, 2011, 7:08 PM UTC

bobo888 wrote: post #31

farlington wrote: post #25

Beautiful and functional. There are things to nitpick of course, but this is light years ahead of the old blogger. It's nice to see Google making a concerted effort to elevate the design of products across their portfolio. I used to think that visual design wasn't much of an institutional priority for G, but they've proven that wrong.

Am I the only one who thinks that the new design colours are somewhat bleached? I would like more contrast. I also find the "Reading List" from my Blogger account homepage to be useless. If I want to subscribe to a feed, Google Reader is a much better option.

I agree with you on the colors. No contrast, it makes it very hard to locate what you need.