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Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by 0df8dkdf »

gkoberger wrote: post #16
errantspark wrote: post #11

Fuck Getty Images. Fuck IP law. Fuck copyright. All that shit needs a massive refactor. I can't bear to think about how much harm has been done to software and human reality in general by lawyers and MBAs seeking to extract the maximum amount of value from things. I'm glad things like this exist, but so sad that they need to. EDIT: and as one commenter astutely pointed out, fuck Pintrest too, a perfect example of the…

What's wrong with Getty? They spend a lot of money to take pictures, and other people pay money to use them. How would you change their business model? EDIT: I hadn't realized that Getty is the reason for the removal of the view image button! I stand by my comment in general, however I do think removing that button is crappy.

This is the exact reason why I don't like these large corporations. Suing to take down content vs hiring competent IT personal to put images you don't want unauthorised person to download behind an authentication (there are plenty out there).

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by TheAceOfHearts »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #65
101008 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am interested in your point of view. Care to expand?

iOS homescreen management is one example. Three confirmations to delete app. Can’t delete app from search. Editing stacks is miserable. The the control center... changing audio source - fine motor skills required if you ever find how. Long pressing things means its faster to do things from settigns. My pet peeve is macos Photos. Forget ever watching your videos for which storage you pay. It just won’t play until you…

Add or Remove Programs on Windows often requires more than 3 clicks to uninstall an application as well, so I'd argue that specific complaint isn't new.

On macOS you can usually just drag the .app file to the Trash.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by RedShift1 »

neilpanchal wrote: post #51
gchokov wrote: post #5

Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?

There are so many things that bother me about contemporary UI in general, I ranted on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293 I sincerely feel that the discipline of building user interfaces is long lost and perhaps never to come back. From car dashboards to loud typography, the whole field is regressing. Minimalism, too much white space, infantilization of users, design trends, loss of pred…

100% agree. When I look at the Windows 10 UI, like for example the settings app, everything is flat, square, 2 tone and all the whitespace makes it look disorganized. It looks downright depressing.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by NetOpWibby »

neilpanchal wrote: post #51
gchokov wrote: post #5

Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?

There are so many things that bother me about contemporary UI in general, I ranted on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293 I sincerely feel that the discipline of building user interfaces is long lost and perhaps never to come back. From car dashboards to loud typography, the whole field is regressing. Minimalism, too much white space, infantilization of users, design trends, loss of pred…

Neil has some great posts and I agree with everything you said. Twitter, Facebook, and Google all look like Fisher-Price design, it’s annoying.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by morsch »

anothernewdude wrote: post #114
de6u99er wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disabled YouTube on my Android phone, and use it in the browser instead. It is heavily overloaded with functionality, that any accidental touch results in an unwanted action. Google Search on mobile browsers is horrible too. When having a typo in the search terms and trying to fix it, the search field moves to the top of the screen and it constantly happens that I click on the second or third entry in the list of s…

I cannot recommend the combination of NewPipe and VLC enough. Have to get NewPipe on your own, because it disables youtube ads as well so it's not on the Play Store. It's been the only offline youtube solution I've found.

Paying Google is another offline youtube solution.

It's odd, though, I watch much more youtube than Netflix at the moment, but since all the stuff on youtube is available anyway, the monthly subscription still feels too expensive, despite being cheaper than Netflix. I wish they would unbundle their music offering, which I have no interest in, but presumably that's precisely why they won't unbundle.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by Griffinsauce »

fuzzy2 wrote: post #30
gchokov wrote: post #5

Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?

They’re in good company though. UI/UX in general is going to hell. Not just in $big_corp, but nearly everywhere. I think that’s mainly because we have UI/UX as a dedicated function now. It’s a job that seems to attract people that don’t know how software _works_. This results in “uncanny” UX that looks similar enough but just doesn’t work the way it should. Maybe I’m just getting old though!

I disagree. UI/UX designers often make utopic designs that would work great for the user, the engineers don't have the resources (time) or the will to execute it well and halfway through execution of the already dressed down version management pivots the team to their latest whim or fucks it up by adding a bunch of badly designed requirements meant to hack metrics.

We live in a world of Frankenstein UIs and it's not the designer's fault what ends up on your screen.

If you want to make a historical comparison, I'd argue that it's more likely to be in the way of working of today vs back then when UI design would get locked in much more _or_ get truly designed along the way with the product needs.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by Griffinsauce »

chii wrote: post #103
dzhiurgis wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS homescreen management is one example. Three confirmations to delete app. Can’t delete app from search. Editing stacks is miserable. The the control center... changing audio source - fine motor skills required if you ever find how. Long pressing things means its faster to do things from settigns. My pet peeve is macos Photos. Forget ever watching your videos for which storage you pay. It just won’t play until you…

> Three confirmations to delete app. Can’t delete app from search. Editing stacks is miserable. I would even consider it by design - management doesn't want apps to be deleted so easily. It's a subtle nudge for a user to accumulate apps, which slowly increase and eat up disk space. The justification is that if no one deletes apps often, the button to do so should be hidden away, so users don't "accidentally" delete a…

This is it. I'm shocked by the amount of blame designers are getting here while they have a job that gets the most unskilled criticism and feedback (as displayed in many comments here).

Everyone has an opinion on design, including stakeholders and management who their jobs depend on. I think all the engineers here don't realise the privilege of having their own impenetrable domain.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by abhinav22 »

neilpanchal wrote: post #51
gchokov wrote: post #5

Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?

There are so many things that bother me about contemporary UI in general, I ranted on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293 I sincerely feel that the discipline of building user interfaces is long lost and perhaps never to come back. From car dashboards to loud typography, the whole field is regressing. Minimalism, too much white space, infantilization of users, design trends, loss of pred…

I like your website too! Very nicely done

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by jspash »

neilpanchal wrote: post #51
gchokov wrote: post #5

Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?

There are so many things that bother me about contemporary UI in general, I ranted on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293 I sincerely feel that the discipline of building user interfaces is long lost and perhaps never to come back. From car dashboards to loud typography, the whole field is regressing. Minimalism, too much white space, infantilization of users, design trends, loss of pred…

My biggest gripe - since I can’t add to your excellent critique of today’s design problems - is when someone comes up with yet another css framework or the like which removes ALL affordances, hides critical functions under mysterious icons, removes ALL colour and personality... then calls it “beautiful”.
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