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Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by nextparadigms »

Just got to try it out now. I see that you can scroll inside the chat list, but as soon as the scrollbar gets to the end, it automatically starts scrolling the main page. Why? It seems annoying to me, because I expect it to do one action (scroll inside the chat) and it ends up doing another (scrolling the main page).

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by RuggeroAltair »

Am I the only one who thinks that the new UI is not very pretty? It's all (un)balanced to the left (for big enough screens) and the gray frame feels like a cage.

Maybe some things work better, but I didn't have a good gut reaction at all seeing the new thing.

P.S. I didn't watch the explanatory video, they are good at those but I wanted to see what it was without guidance.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by fufulabs »

RuggeroAltair wrote: post #112

Am I the only one who thinks that the new UI is not very pretty? It's all (un)balanced to the left (for big enough screens) and the gray frame feels like a cage. Maybe some things work better, but I didn't have a good gut reaction at all seeing the new thing. P.S. I didn't watch the explanatory video, they are good at those but I wanted to see what it was without guidance.

I also think this is a step backwards. I was excited by the looks of it but the feel is very inferior. The feel reminded me of Microsoft Word somehow and thats not a good thing.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by logic »

iconfinder wrote: post #72
jaysonelliot wrote: post #46

The first thing I have to do when looking at a demo video like this is mute the music so I can actually look at the usability of the interface without the soundtrack trying to tug at my heartstrings. I find it hard to tell if this is going to be a step in the right direction or not. There are some red flags that go up for me, but it's obviously hard to judge based on descriptions and videos alone. One of the biggest…

"It's an adage in UX that when you see an interface that asks the user to customize the layout, it means the designers gave up trying to find the right solution themselves." It's always depends on the app. If you have a tool where you primarily have heavy users e.g. a programmer's IDE - then customization makes sense. But in the case of Google+ I don't see the point either - it just adds extra complexity.

Think a/b testing: if your users start customizing around a particular pattern (particularly in larger numbers), there might be something to learn from that.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by kooshball »

ed209 wrote: post #64
Jach wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Noise filtering is just another form of spam filtering, Google has a lot more in-house experience with that than Facebook I imagine. I think even something as simple as a personalized Naive Bayes filter would go far. Ad hoc groupings of people in your Lists and ad hoc set operations on your current groups (school intersection friends, union of all groups filtered where profession = X or Y, etc.) is something a write…

> Noise filtering is just another form of spam filtering Logically you might think so, but noise is not always noise, sometimes it's what you're interested in reading about, some days it isn't. Spam, however, is always spam. Google+ have tried to solve this "noise" problem through the ui with a "volume" slider. But it's like fine tuning a recording desk if you have to do that to 50 circles to get the mix just right.…

> Logically you might think so, but noise is not always noise, sometimes it's what you're interested in reading about, some days it isn't. Spam, however, is always spam.

Spam is not always spam. There is a subset of spam that are obvious spams such as ones that tries to sell you viagra. Outside of that, there are mails that are harder to classify since different people will respond differently to them. It might seem like that's just me being pedantic but the result is that user end up with mail they do not want to receive, and mark it as spam. This is similar to how I respond to news feeds except I dont have an easy "mark as spam" button without blocking that person forever.

G+ should implement some sort of rating system to rank items that I liked and push those ones similar to it higher on the feed.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by foolinator »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #102
foolinator wrote: post #80

Even though one can't reliably predict how to take down facebook, it's great to see google keep trying to lash at it. Historically, no tech company stays in the #1 spot for more than a decade. That doesn't mean Facebook won't be around in 10 years, but it does show how volatile the tech market can be. XBox was viewed as a joke but they kept at it with their cash machine, and now they're successful. Dreamcast was awes…

> no tech company stays in the #1 spot for more than a decade If that were a fixed law, then Facebook could still wait for Windows, Photoshop, Skype and Google Search to disappear before they had to worry about themselves. I hope I will remember to revisit this comment in half a decade. :)

Facebook isn't even the #1 spot right now. Google, apple, and microsoft are still much bigger companies than they are. And oh yeah, they make PROFIT.

IMHO, facebook is GREATLY overvalued, but only time will tell if it's true. Their investment in price assumes that they will continue to grow and will still have no competition in a 1/2 decade.

$120 billion, or $80 billion - depending on who you talk to. Google is making cars that the blind can drive and glasses we saw in terminator. Facebook, they're giving us timeline. GE makes light bulbs, owns NBC, create military jets. Facebook gives us status updates. You think facebook can possibly be worth 1/3 of ALL of GE?

Of course, I'm joking a lil about facebook's offerings. I know they offer far more. However, to think they're going to be the only dog in town doing what they do is just being ignorant.

Tech is filled with creative people who fuck shit up all the time. Just as facebook made some people turn heads at MSFT and GOOG, so will someone else in the future.

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