Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
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Re: Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
#2Every company works for itself first.
Re: Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
#3This is assuming malice when you could assume incompetence (to whatever slight degree this stuff is).
Probably these things got put in a future release, or are in the backlog still. Well meaning product designers wanted them and can't have them or some other typical big-co reason a product gets little iteration.
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#4This is the first time I'm hearing about BookmarkOS. Has anyone here tried it?
Re: Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
#5This is assuming malice when you could assume incompetence (to whatever slight degree this stuff is). Probably these things got put in a future release, or are in the backlog still. Well meaning product designers wanted them and can't have them or some other typical big-co reason a product gets little iteration.
Google Docs has existed for a 15 years and it’s UI has barely improved from what I remember.
Re: Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
#6"corals" should be "corrals"
Re: Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
#7This is why I use a self-hosted bookmark manager like Shiori, although I concede that I haven't found an ideal bookmark manager yet. I wish Chrome would have never built both its own bookmark manager and password manager, as well as Firefox. I believe those types of tasks are best left up to the community, and that for the most part web browsers should not be trying to re-invent what is already there.
Re: Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
#8Essentially all the folders and organization for Google Docs happens through Google Drive. So you have to keep switching between the two. Why is the Google Drive interface not embedded in Google Docs instead of that dumb list of documents?
Re: Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
#9This is assuming malice when you could assume incompetence (to whatever slight degree this stuff is). Probably these things got put in a future release, or are in the backlog still. Well meaning product designers wanted them and can't have them or some other typical big-co reason a product gets little iteration.
Google Docs has existed for a 15 years and it’s UI has barely improved from what I remember.
Have you seen Google's latest icons? They aren't exactly known for doing what is competent, sane, or useful.
It took them years and years to finally make the "Ignore Toll Roads" on Google maps not reset after you close the app, even after tons of bug reports with hundreds of responses.
Re: Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
#10This is assuming malice when you could assume incompetence (to whatever slight degree this stuff is). Probably these things got put in a future release, or are in the backlog still. Well meaning product designers wanted them and can't have them or some other typical big-co reason a product gets little iteration.
Google Docs has existed for a 15 years and it’s UI has barely improved from what I remember.
Sheets has gone through massive improvements in features.
It's no Excel, especially for bigger sheets or complex functions, but it's been a good way to provide my website users with a web spreadsheet. I'm reminded this every 4 years when I need to install Excel.