Everyone hates UI changes. Wait 6 months and it will be the new normal.
It will be the normal, but this has been a disaster. The fact that I get a loading indicator in an email is ridiculously annoying.
Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
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#22For me it's not about look but speed: Gmail simply can't put text in the compose box as fast as I can type it. Gmail is the slowest web app I use. From what I've read Google, for whatever reason, don't care about Gmail perf and use slow deprecated APIs in Firefox and Edge even when faster ones are available. The DOM looks like garbage with massive amounts of unnecessary elements. It's basically the opposite pf everyt…
I switched to using the macOS mail app for the first time in years, and was kind of blown away by how fast it was. Native apps still have their place.
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#23I don’t mind it. What are the biggest issues?
Load speed. It adds ~5sec per action in the interface.
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#24Please Google, let us keep Inbox
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#25I prefer email clients to web-mail. I have multiple email addresses so I use email clients to manage my accounts; contacts, calendar, meeting schedule lookups, view multiple mail accounts, reply from multiple mail accounts, less passwords to remember etc.
Even though I'm using something else, Eudora still rocks by the way. http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-eudora-email-client...
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#26Same thing happened with Google maps a couple of years ago. They changed the UI to one a lot less functional, gave users an option to use the old UI for a while, then took it away. Now we're stuck with gmaps that are much worse than they used to be.
Product managers at Google (and everywhere else) don't get promoted for leaving good products alone.
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#27The mail part might be fine, but they completely broke the editing functionality of the task list. No more merging/splitting items.
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#28Everyone hates UI changes. Wait 6 months and it will be the new normal.
I may be over generalizing but this is so true. The same People will yearn for the existing UI when you Google updates it six months down the line.
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#29“Everything is round”
The only way to settle this one, is to wait for one of the following groups of people to go extinct:
- those who like round things - those who like rectangles
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#30I don’t mind it. What are the biggest issues?
One response I have is that it was vaguely perfect approx 6 years ago. And it's just clinkier feeling in terms of responsiveness and visual apace efficiently . . And probably a better point is to say: I might be wrong at the analysis level/efficiency numbers. . But if my brain is stressed out from the change enough that I'm laying here on a Saturday ranting and getting worked up on this apparently along with others here, prioritising this over normal leisure & conversing /entertaining out of town guests... There may be some unnamed metric here that isn't measured and represents a negative impact on users?