Google's new "batshit crazy" UX
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Google's new "batshit crazy" UX
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#2I sooooo agree.
Although I rarely, if ever click on the logo in gmail, I do believe in the "logo should be a link to the root" convention. Surely that's just UI design 101, right?
The twitter one you mentioned in the article drives me super crazy as well.
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#3My biggest gripe is that they completely removed the link to "Scholar" from the search menu options, making my omnibar so less useful, and there's no option to reenable it.
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#4What is also annoying is when the logo on a company/product's blog goes to the blog index rather than the homepage of the company, leaving me to either manually edit the url or look for the link which is always in a different place with different text.
If your blog exists to drive traffic to your product, why would you not link that big logo in the top left to the product page?
This is second in annoyance only to company blogs that don't have a tagline explaining wtf the product is, leaving me baffled when I click though from here or wherever. Thankfully people seem to have learned from this and you don't often end up dumped, contextless into the middle of some domain-specific screed any more.
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#5...although sometimes it takes a little batshit crazy to break convention and change things for the better. Really, only time will tell...
I keep getting reminded of Zuckerberg's Startup School interview (http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808358) where he talks about moving equally too fast and too slow or as Jessica called it "a willingness to break things."
On one hand, I'm slightly frustrated at all these weird changes these established companies are making; but on the other hand I'm excited to see them messing with things that seem so core to their product, it shows that they're still willing to experiment and not getting too comfortable (which I think is more dangerous).
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#6I always clicked on the gmail logo, and it drives me batty that they changed it. It's just an easier target for the mouse/my eyes than that little reload button, or, even worse, the inbox link.
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#7I sooooo agree. Although I rarely, if ever click on the logo in gmail, I do believe in the "logo should be a link to the root" convention. Surely that's just UI design 101, right? The twitter one you mentioned in the article drives me super crazy as well.
Especially when it used to do it; this certainly caught me by surprise when they made the change.
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#8BTW, does anyone know how to go the next page after the UI change? Buttons just vanished and one can only see up to 50 messages.
EDIT: one has to click on "1-25 of many" and the buttons to change pages appear. Does anyone find it intuitive?
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#9Some reasoning: It gets (read:forces) you to use the top bar. For people that always ignored the topbar before; they cannot now. So these users, as well as everyone else who used it only sporadically, are now using it always and thus are more likely to investigate and use other links/apps on the topbar now. These of course include all of the other google services. It's like herding cattle.
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#10Complaining about broken website conventions while simultaneously breaking them yourself is either ironic or hypocritical, depending on your mood.
The author's webpage has a "x Kudos" vibrating image on the right and side, and if you hover over the image then the page sends a "like" HTTP message to the server. So now hovering my mouse over an element just had me like the author's page. That is way worse than a link with a broken image.