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Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by inlined »

TheSpiceIsLife wrote: post #44

I don’t consider there to be anything technically interesting here, neither with regard to design. Flag and move on. As others have mentioned: a vocal minority always dislike UI changes, but in six months it will be the new normal. One thing I will say though, it’s starting to look like we’ve run out of good UI changes and what we’re served up now is the refried beans / day old reheated leftovers of UI design. Anyway…

>> Email, for me, is way too important to have no paid support

Paid support (and other features) is $1.99/mo.

https://one.google.com/about

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by debaserab2 »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #26

Same 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.

What functionality did the old google maps have that the current one doesn't?

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by vmware513 »

I'm a big fun of the latest GMail and of the modern Google Map. I think, their changes are usually based on thorough UX research. It is normal, there are a strong minority, who cannot get used to new user interfaces and cannot accept changes... Luckily there are alternative services, so they can use something else. ;)

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by erikb »

The thing is that someone saying "I don't like the new UI" doesn't say anything. Always when you change something that more than 10 people use at least one person will be unhappy with a change.

What they hopefully do is check the metrics, e.g. of how many people switch to desktop mail clients and basic html view.

And honestly the new UI doesn't disrupt my workflow that much. You can like or not like the roundedness or that it got slower, but the workflow can stay almost the same. Therefore I'd say the current change is at least better then when they switched to teh Google-plus-everything mode a few years ago and fucked up all processes and all static links.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by themodelplumber »

JamesAdir wrote: post #43

The UI is horrible and it has already been discussed in many places, but to me the slowness is the no.1 problem. I thought it was just a hiccup when they had it on optional mode, but now it's plain slow. I've tried on different connections and different browsers and they all seem to generate the same result. Super slow loading times of the interface and the emails. I still remember when gmail was the fastest kid on t…

Man, last week a friend asked me to set him up with an email account through Dreamhost shared hosting. My first reaction was "who does this anymore" but after 10 minutes passed (he already had a website there) I was sending him IMAP server information and thinking, "I have got to move on something like this, I'll bet it's 200% faster than current GMail." It's not going to be a GSuite-level toolset for him, of course, but wow, simple email like that is a huge portion of my personal use case.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by ndnxhs »

inpdx wrote: post #35
itake wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously, every time big company does large UX change, there is a post like this asking how to revert. Sources: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1020032... Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/8w03ms/is_it_poss...

Old reddit is still available and still better.

New reddit is insanely slow. Just touch your mouse and it fires off 30 network requests.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by realusername »

vmware513 wrote: post #54

I'm a big fun of the latest GMail and of the modern Google Map. I think, their changes are usually based on thorough UX research. It is normal, there are a strong minority, who cannot get used to new user interfaces and cannot accept changes... Luckily there are alternative services, so they can use something else. ;)

They are better UX-wise yes but they are also much slower, that's my problem with it. I don't really care to have fancy animations if it takes 5 more seconds to load and 3 more seconds when I click on something. The new Google Maps is bad enough that I use only the phone app now.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by jimueller »

dpcan wrote: post #5

Interesting. I switched to the new Gmail, and I actually can't remember what the old one looked like already. I'm sure Google will do just fine ignoring all these requests and their billion+ users will adapt.

I agree, that thread is a bit dramatic. With compact view, I'm failing to see a big difference.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by symlinkk »

realusername wrote: post #58
vmware513 wrote: post #54

I'm a big fun of the latest GMail and of the modern Google Map. I think, their changes are usually based on thorough UX research. It is normal, there are a strong minority, who cannot get used to new user interfaces and cannot accept changes... Luckily there are alternative services, so they can use something else. ;)

They are better UX-wise yes but they are also much slower, that's my problem with it. I don't really care to have fancy animations if it takes 5 more seconds to load and 3 more seconds when I click on something. The new Google Maps is bad enough that I use only the phone app now.

Do you have specific examples? Everything is instantaneous for me.
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