Google Tests an Interface Optimized for Infinite Scrolling
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Google Tests an Interface Optimized for Infinite Scrolling
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#3I hate infinite scrolling. With pagination at least you get a feeling of having completed something, of having got somewhere. With infinite scrolling you are stuck, scrolling forever.
The nice thing about Google Images infinite scrolling is that they combine it with pagination.
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#4I hate infinite scrolling. With pagination at least you get a feeling of having completed something, of having got somewhere. With infinite scrolling you are stuck, scrolling forever. The nice thing about Google Images infinite scrolling is that they combine it with pagination.
I think the title is misleading. If I'm not mistaken it's not actual infinite scrolling, the only change is the search bar and search tools remain in a fixed position. It's a nice change.
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#5"The navigation bar, the search box and the search options sidebar have a fixed position"
I see this as "the revenge of designers" -- having anything permanently taking up the vertical space was pushed from "designers" for years and it always reduced usability for me. I'd prefer to see the results, not immense fixed space that doesn't contain anything. The picture is telling -- the permanent menu bar and the huge empty space around the search box and logo.
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#6Please, please, never use recursive examples. They are confusing, distracting, make any presentation look poor, plus they show the author's lack of imagination. In this particular case I didn't quite get why Google appears on the right in the video until I saw that the guy was demonstrating Google Search by searching "google search".
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#7"The navigation bar, the search box and the search options sidebar have a fixed position" I see this as "the revenge of designers" -- having anything permanently taking up the vertical space was pushed from "designers" for years and it always reduced usability for me. I'd prefer to see the results, not immense fixed space that doesn't contain anything. The picture is telling -- the permanent menu bar and the huge emp…
Perhaps they can try another pattern (now seen on TechCrunch.com). Initially, the logo/header is sized normally. As you scroll down to the point where the header would disappear, it shrinks to a smaller height. Seems weird at first, but makes a whole lot of sense.
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#8I hate infinite scrolling. With pagination at least you get a feeling of having completed something, of having got somewhere. With infinite scrolling you are stuck, scrolling forever. The nice thing about Google Images infinite scrolling is that they combine it with pagination.
I think the title is misleading. If I'm not mistaken it's not actual infinite scrolling, the only change is the search bar and search tools remain in a fixed position. It's a nice change.
>The new interface seems to set the stage for a fluid design that removes pagination and replaces it with infinite scrolling.
The key phrase in the article is "setting the stage". Google hasn't switched to infinite scroll yet, but with a fixed header it seems most likely for them to do so soon.
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#9"The most important change is that most navigation elements continue to be visible even when you scroll down. The navigation bar, the search box and the search options sidebar have a fixed position"
Strange that "position: fixed" hasn't found its way to popular websites before now. It's been supported by major browsers since the early zeroes (or late nineties?), the only exception being IE (for which you can easily make a fix).
Here's a page from ten years ago (!) describing "position: fixed": http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus
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#10I hate infinite scrolling. With pagination at least you get a feeling of having completed something, of having got somewhere. With infinite scrolling you are stuck, scrolling forever. The nice thing about Google Images infinite scrolling is that they combine it with pagination.
I think the title is misleading. If I'm not mistaken it's not actual infinite scrolling, the only change is the search bar and search tools remain in a fixed position. It's a nice change.
I haven't seen it in action, but from what I saw in the video, it was actual infinite scrolling - the pagination controls got replaced with 'second page' content after scrolling down.
My guess is that the pagination controls are there to accomodate people with JavaScript disabled.