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Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by nurettin »

neilpanchal wrote: post #32

Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn. Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.

We are in the era of three seashells. There is no turning back from this. Soon you won't be able to find the power button for anything tech industry related.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by ehsankia »

vosper wrote: post #94
neilpanchal wrote: post #32

Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn. Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.

https://www.meetenhancementsuite.com/ Not that you should have to install an extension to get basic UX

To be fair a lot of sites do need it, especially for more power user level UX. See BetterTTV, RES, etc. Sites generally don't target power users, understandably.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by XorNot »

Spare_account wrote: post #84
adrr wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s even worse on touch devices. You have to touch the bottom screen to get the controls to appear. Accident touch twice in the wrong location and you can hang up.

I've often thought that on a touch screen device the OS should ignore touches on buttons/popups that have been on screen for less time than a human could reasonably have observed it and chosen to interact with it. If I touch the screen 0.05 seconds after a button appears, I was probably _not_ aiming for that button. In fact, now I think about it, this has happened many times over the years with traditional mouse driv…

Honestly with mouse driven interfaces the rule should be that whatever is popping up on screen absolutely cannot put an interactable control under the current mouse cursor location, and no control should have control focus by default.

There's nothing quite like watching a dialog box go flying by because you hit enter at the exact moment it popped up. What was it? What did it do? We'll never know!

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by rplnt »

neilpanchal wrote: post #32

Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn. Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.

> Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn.

But you will hit a dog probably, because the steering wheel suddenly blocks your view too.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by [deleted] »

adrr wrote: post #75
neilpanchal wrote: post #32

Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn. Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.

It’s even worse on touch devices. You have to touch the bottom screen to get the controls to appear. Accident touch twice in the wrong location and you can hang up.

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Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by easytiger »

ibuildthings wrote: post #19
ZephyrBlu wrote: post #17

Unrelated to the ML, but I don't like the fact I noticed that all the people in the clips are "diverse". No clue whether Google did this on purpose, but I feel like I've been trained to notice this due to the diversity movement thing currently occurring and I don't like it.

In this particular case, why is testing/demonstrating on diverse set of individuals a bad thing ? A personal anecdote is that a few years back the automatic door sensors in my university did not work on my skin tone.

Automatic door sensors are in my experience universally infra red. In fact I don't think I've ever seen any camera technology used in that context. Are you saying they used cameras to open the doors?

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by toper-centage »

obilgic wrote: post #39

You all notice that this is a PR piece to get tech people interested in using google meet instead of zoom right.

No, because tech people want software that works, has good UX etc. This is a PR piece for people that prefer software that has cutsie little backgrounds.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by ehsankia »

helpfulgoogler wrote: post #43
neilpanchal wrote: post #32

Aside: Imagine you’re driving down the road and you need to make a right turn. Well, for some reason the steering wheel is stowed away and disappeared! You need to hover your hand around the center console in a specific area to be able to expose it. Out comes the steering wheel and now you can make a right turn. Google UX/UI team: Please fucking make the mute/unmute button visible at all times.

Not what you asked for, but you can mute/unmute quickly with the keyboard shortcut: ⌘/Ctrl + d

And ctrl+e for video

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by rplnt »

kerng wrote: post #61

Interesting that this post made it to #1. It seems like Google marketing trick. Anyone who uses the blue realizes that it's far lacking in quality from other offerings and Google Meet UI is very bad also. Zoom, Teams, even WebEx are superior quality and usability wise.

Google Meet UX is the worst. Except WebEx which is somehow even worse. But WebEx is at least "complicated" and bad, Meet is just bad.

Out of these I'm really surprised how "not as horrible" MS Teams are. Loads of functionality and the UX is bearable.

Re: Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML

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Post by toper-centage »

senectus1 wrote: post #11
chdjakdkgb wrote: post #7

Wtf happened to hangouts? How many video products does google have?

Hangouts is EOL :-( We're being herded into the new more useless products.

Hangouts was always terrible and bloated. I miss Google Talk. Instead, we get something more terrible and bloated than Hangouts.
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