Yet another opportunity for yet another Sparrow or Inbox app. Thanks, Alphabet!
Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#142Other than the big, rainbow compose button looking tacky, and the perform nose dive, the experience isn’t too different to me
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#143The UI seems ok overall although definitely slower than before.
I have another weird issue happening though with my second Gmail account on Chrome. Sometimes when I login, it refreshes during the flash screen of Gmail logo and logs me out automatically going back to the login page. Has that happened to anyone?
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#144I've switched to basic HTML view. Looking for a new email client.
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#145It makes me feel like I'm a child at a daycare center. What's a good alternative? I'm thinking of switching to iCloud as my primary but I don't know if I want to be completely ingrained into Apple's ecosystem.
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#146Google web UX has gotten horrific. I used to visit Google News multiple times per day. Then the UX went to hell there too. Each iteration became worse. After the latest changes, it became so unbearably hideous and clunky that I couldn't stand it anymore. I got mad every time I loaded the site. But years of keyboard memory still had me typing in the URL constantly, getting mad every time it loaded up. I finally black…
UX Pro here. Google pays senior UX folks an average $160,000 they have "degrees" from third rate Unis like Stanford and Cal Poly tech. How dumb can they be? Do you think they will ever make any money?
Skipping the "UX Pro" creds, I trust that the rest of your post is correct: Google has well-paid UX engineers from the best places.
That's precisely what I find scary about those UX changes: they to run counter-current of everything I value in UX (clean and compact vs. bloated and spread out).
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#147Totally agree. I like the old gmail UI. It's more cleaner and easier to navigate.
The new gmail UI is so cluttered. Full of unnecessary stuff. Hope they bring back the option to revert back to classic UI. Mine is missing already.
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#148Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hit the "hamburger" icon way up in the left corner next to the main Gmail logo.
Thanks. My brain has been trained to think of this behavior as "pinning", now I'll just have to get used to the hamburger.
Yeah the discoverability is terrible. Even knowing the feature existed, it took me four or five tries to find it again just before I commented.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#150I don't mind the look that much, but it's painfully slow. When an application gains a animated splash screen I know that it's time has come. I'm using a Chromebook, so in a way a Google blessed device and it's annoyingly slow. I'm switching to basic HTML view. If it will disappear I will get off gmail for good.
I must have a super computer because it is blazing fast for me after an initial 1-2s load time.
It's fast for me too, apart from the one to two second load time for opening an email, inbox, filter, spam boxes etc.