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Google Zeitgeist 2013
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#52nice. Black dead rectangle in the center of bluish background. No interaction anywhere. Firefox. If it doesn't work in FF, it doesn't work.
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#53All I'm seeing is a blue screen. Macbook, using Chrome.
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#54I'm on chrome and it was super clunky. Skipped a ton on scroll.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Designers and product managers have taken the reigns from the engineers. Recall that Google at one time never had TV advertisements. Now you can't turn the damn thing on without seeing one.
Exactly. After all, it's pretty much how Apple made its historic unprecedented profits: more designers than engineers.
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#56You seriously mean to tell me that the most popular search on Google for 2013 is 'Paul Walker' followed by 'iPhone 5s'? What? Surely 'Weather' would be higher. I simply don't know what I'm looking at here.
It's actually "Top 100 [Trending] Searches." They could have been more clear about that. http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts?date=2013
Yes, it's trending searches, not most popular ones. By the way, non-engineers/non-analytical people usually have trouble differentiating the two. I can't recall how many meetings with product/business people that I have to explain the concepts.
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#57What a shitty user experience. What changed at google? They used to have these rather simple, useful, UIs.
Wow. I am not the only one that felt like this. That was such a horribly designed UI. I had no idea what I am looking at and why. Google used to all about simplicity. I remember in prior years these kind of posts always had graphs and considerable text explaining trends. Its like someone there realized they are JS experts.
No, you're not alone. When they offer data, a lot of us think, "Oh, goodie, some interesting data!" We hustle over there to learn something new and learn it quickly.
If instead we are treated to a demonstration of javascript media virtuosity that buries the actual data too deeply to be worth extracting, we get annoyed and complain: "Where's the beef?" (But I don't think there's anybody back there[1].)
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#58I would prefer a .txt file list over this, I can't even tell the order without individual clicks.
http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts#date=2013 . Not a text file but, a much better format than the op. Edit: Apparently this is linked in the bottom left corner of the page... totally missed it. What an effective site design.
And it still fucking breaks scroll.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
The video appears to be an mp4 (the network monitor says so) and it should work fine (it does here). Please ensure you have the latest FF version, available from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ (in case the update fails).
I have Firefox 26.0 installed, it still fails on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit both).
Can't help you with Windows, but I'm interested to see what happens under Ubuntu. It's on my todo list for tomorrow (by date, not by priority).
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#60What a shitty user experience. What changed at google? They used to have these rather simple, useful, UIs.
Designers and product managers have taken the reigns from the engineers. Recall that Google at one time never had TV advertisements. Now you can't turn the damn thing on without seeing one.
Any designer that knows what they are doing makes things easier to use, not more difficult.
I think it would be better to say 'Amateurs have taken the reigns'.