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Re: Google Design

#11

Am I the only one who gets a headache trying to decipher tile layouts like this? My eyes bounce back and forth and I still have no idea how the information is structured or what's important. I appreciate that Google is sharing all of this though.

It's gonna get worse before it gets better....

http://beta.united.com/

It it a button? Or a dialog box? Maybe it's an ad. Flip a coin!

Re: Google Design

#12

Am I the only one who gets a headache trying to decipher tile layouts like this? My eyes bounce back and forth and I still have no idea how the information is structured or what's important. I appreciate that Google is sharing all of this though.

It's gonna get worse before it gets better.... http://beta.united.com/ It it a button? Or a dialog box? Maybe it's an ad. Flip a coin!

Exactly...I don't understand it :(

The new Azure portal looks very similar and it's borderline unusable. Unless I'm just resistant to change and will eventually warm up to it but it seems to violate a lot of fundamental design principles.

Re: Google Design

#15

Am I the only one who gets a headache trying to decipher tile layouts like this? My eyes bounce back and forth and I still have no idea how the information is structured or what's important. I appreciate that Google is sharing all of this though.

Well at least it loaded for me in Opera, unlike the Google I/O site which reminded me of the dark days of the single browser web.

Re: Google Design

#16
"We're no longer controlling every pixel. It's more like jazz improvisation." Matias Duarte, VP Design @ Google.

Super interesting concept. The abstraction of design.

Re: Google Design

#17

Am I the only one who gets a headache trying to decipher tile layouts like this? My eyes bounce back and forth and I still have no idea how the information is structured or what's important. I appreciate that Google is sharing all of this though.

Well at least it loaded for me in Opera, unlike the Google I/O site which reminded me of the dark days of the single browser web.

Opera basically is dead though, so I don't think one can reasonably expect new websites to test for it.

Now, if it didn't work in Firefox or IE11, then that would be significantly more questionable.

Edit: I'm assuming we're talking about classic Opera, not the Chromium build that is currently called Opera but is actually Chromium.

Re: Google Design

#19
post #3

Web page is nice-looking, but isn't snappy (at least not on my laptop).

Scolling is smooth in IE on a Surface Pro 3, but not in Firefox. That's pretty typical. What's unusual is that it's visibly janky in Firefox on this desktop with an i7 and a Quadro FX 580. Sure, it's not a brand new workstation, but it should be able to scroll a webpage...

Also using Firefox here. It's a MacBook Pro that's a few years old, but is still fast.

Re: Google Design

#20

"We're no longer controlling every pixel. It's more like jazz improvisation." Matias Duarte, VP Design @ Google. Super interesting concept. The abstraction of design.

It's the right way to go in a world of not being able to predict the size of a render pane.
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