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Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by smichel17 »

thotsBgone wrote: post #19
toper-centage wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is data driven and AB tests the hell out of their features, so I would assume these changes make them money somehow. Your personal preferences or anyone else's is merely a very small data point in their design process.

Yes, companies are profit-driven always. Not customer-satisfaction driven, unless that's what will bring them the most profit (especially true for newer, smaller companies). This makes me wonder if there is some structure similar to a corporation which would maximise something besides profit, without either being out-competed by a corporation or turning into one.

It's not exactly what you describe, but you might be interested in looking into cooperatives. https://cdsus.coop/about/what-is-a-co-op/

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by bonestamp2 »

clintonc wrote: post #29
gchokov wrote: post #5

Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?

The main changes this extension addresses were made because of a settlement with Getty Images. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...

Yup, we can cut them slack on this one -- they didn't want to make it worse.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by benibela »

101008 wrote: post #37
fuzzy2 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re in good company though. UI/UX in general is going to hell. Not just in $big_corp, but nearly everywhere. I think that’s mainly because we have UI/UX as a dedicated function now. It’s a job that seems to attract people that don’t know how software _works_. This results in “uncanny” UX that looks similar enough but just doesn’t work the way it should. Maybe I’m just getting old though!

I am interested in your point of view. Care to expand?

My pet peeve is the new file handling

The programs used to ask for a file name before saving it somewhere. Programs with modern UI/UX just save the file to a random place and then you have to search it.

The browser saves it to Downloads, or to the Desktop, or perhaps to the home folder.

The GNOME screenshot tool saves it to the home folder

The GNOME audiorecorder saves it to somewhere else

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by kemonocode »

The project's rather esoteric license confuses me quite a bit, as it seems to have a mixture of English and French, and I can't make heads or tails out of the French parts. Could anyone else help me out describing the license terms in plain English, please?

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by dzhiurgis »

101008 wrote: post #37
fuzzy2 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re in good company though. UI/UX in general is going to hell. Not just in $big_corp, but nearly everywhere. I think that’s mainly because we have UI/UX as a dedicated function now. It’s a job that seems to attract people that don’t know how software _works_. This results in “uncanny” UX that looks similar enough but just doesn’t work the way it should. Maybe I’m just getting old though!

I am interested in your point of view. Care to expand?

iOS homescreen management is one example. Three confirmations to delete app. Can’t delete app from search. Editing stacks is miserable.

The the control center... changing audio source - fine motor skills required if you ever find how. Long pressing things means its faster to do things from settigns.

My pet peeve is macos Photos. Forget ever watching your videos for which storage you pay. It just won’t play until you click edit which is gonna just crash app about 10% of time. If it doesn’t it takes 5 minutes to download at like 10mbps.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by rosmax_1337 »

Extensions like this keep my faith in the internet going, and a lot of other stuff in general going as well. Because it proves that for every moron you can find, there will be a decent person to counteract them.

The problem is as always, it is easier to break things than it is to make things.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by gradys »

michaelmrose wrote: post #32
toper-centage wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is data driven and AB tests the hell out of their features, so I would assume these changes make them money somehow. Your personal preferences or anyone else's is merely a very small data point in their design process.

Doctors used to believe that basic hygiene was unnecessary despite having enough information in theory to figure out this wasn't so. The presumption that someone in theory has access to lots of information and therefore is making the best or even good decisions on some dimensions by virtue of the their access to data is poorly considered. It is entirely possible to be smart and possessed of good data and still use it…

I guess the question here is who is more like those doctors in this scenario: you, or the people running the randomized controlled trials?

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by nostromo »

neilpanchal wrote: post #51
gchokov wrote: post #5

Someone in Google’s UX and Design department, really needs go out and breathe some fresh air. Is it only me, who dislikes 95% of the design decision of Google products in the recent years?

There are so many things that bother me about contemporary UI in general, I ranted on here the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293 I sincerely feel that the discipline of building user interfaces is long lost and perhaps never to come back. From car dashboards to loud typography, the whole field is regressing. Minimalism, too much white space, infantilization of users, design trends, loss of pred…

This soulless corporate style of illustration not a single person likes:

https://www.imgur.com/DcL05OA.gif

(This could be a subset of infantilization, since this art style seems to come from books for toddlers.)

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by oauea »

101008 wrote: post #37
fuzzy2 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They’re in good company though. UI/UX in general is going to hell. Not just in $big_corp, but nearly everywhere. I think that’s mainly because we have UI/UX as a dedicated function now. It’s a job that seems to attract people that don’t know how software _works_. This results in “uncanny” UX that looks similar enough but just doesn’t work the way it should. Maybe I’m just getting old though!

I am interested in your point of view. Care to expand?

Lots of people studying UX design but not actually using a lot of computer programs.

Re: Google Images Restored

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Post by RyanShook »

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #66

Extensions like this keep my faith in the internet going, and a lot of other stuff in general going as well. Because it proves that for every moron you can find, there will be a decent person to counteract them. The problem is as always, it is easier to break things than it is to make things.

Looks like a great extension, hoping they don't use it to steal my information since it has full access to Chrome!
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