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The Google design, turned up a notch
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Re: The Google design, turned up a notch
#62From a visual standpoint, I think the most interesting change is the shading on the search bar, which makes it look raised on the page. It looks a little awkward to me, I'm sure because almost all form inputs are either flat or sunken into the page. I do think being sunken into the page is a more appropriate metaphor... I wonder how they came to that decision.
What more appropriate metaphor is that? Writing on a piece of paper underneath the top one that I can only see a little bit of through a little window? Putting words on a shelf and the shelf needs to look like it is deep enough to hold the letters so they won't fall out the front and down the page?
Well, more like, you have two sheets of paper, the top one has labels with boxes cut out so that you write your answers on the bottom one. when you lift the top sheet off (click submit), you're left with only the raw data.
Re: The Google design, turned up a notch
#63The reason the new design is so much worse is that it uses the most valuable space on the screen, the left side (since we read left to right), for stuff users don't care much about. What users care about most on a page of search results is the search results. Those should get priority. Instead the prime space is given to stuff that's boilerplate, or only tangentially relevant, or both. I'm surprised Google would make…
Tufte's data ink is too extreme in my opinion. Human perception might be too messy and complex to handled by simply mathematical calculations. User behaviors might be a more approperiate approach to evaluate the new design.
Indeed. If something anchors our visual scanning from page to page, then doing a calculation which always takes the upper left as the best location starts to seem very odd. In the case of the redesign, I would suggest that the big text box, which the user was just looking at on the home page, might play the role of visual anchor.
Re: The Google design, turned up a notch
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Also, as monitor sizes have gone up (and this might just be a personal preference) I've found that I'd rather the important stuff be in the middle of the screen, not over on the left. Is that just me?
You could always not maximize your browser.
Already doing that. But thanks.
Re: The Google design, turned up a notch
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Yes, we had several people at my office say the same thing so another programmer and I wrote a couple of plugins to hide it (FX and Chrome only): http://www.seotools.com/hide-google-options/ . I personally like the sidebar, I think the date-based filtering is great.
The tool does not do the trick for me... Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta on Windows Vista. Screen shot here, the Extension seems to be enabled. http://asmo.kortis.to/misc/shot_07052010_125200.png I guess it's time to start using duckduckgo.com for real.
Right now, it's only enabled for google.com -- we'll be adding all the google search properties in today.
Re: The Google design, turned up a notch
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tool does not do the trick for me... Chrome 5.0.375.29 beta on Windows Vista. Screen shot here, the Extension seems to be enabled. http://asmo.kortis.to/misc/shot_07052010_125200.png I guess it's time to start using duckduckgo.com for real.
Right now, it's only enabled for google.com -- we'll be adding all the google search properties in today.
Got it, thanks! I hadn't even noticed being redirected to the local page..