Don't make it "like Google"

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• infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is not a well written arricle. They mixes material design with corporate memphis, which is not necessarily related, they can exist independently.

  Their actual problem with google’s ux is appears only in this paragraph:

  The problem? Google’s actual UI & UX design is terrible. Whether mass-market or enterprise, web or mobile, its interfaces are chaotic and confusing. Every time I use Google Drive or the G Suite admin console, I feel lost. Neither experience nor intuition helps—I feel like an old man seeing a computer for the first time. I used Android for years (stock Android on a Nexus device), yet even after all that time, I struggled to distinguish buttons from plain text.

  No examples, no reasoning, no good counter examples how it should be done, nothing. I’m not super familiar with google’s web ux as I only use search and youtube ocasionally. They write here about android, but no android screenshots in the article. So is this about web ux only? Or anything google? The author couldn’t even figure out what is their problem, this article sounds like “old man yelling at cloud”

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Omg if Drive doesnt have an intuitive design they should never touch Sharepoint.

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  • thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As an old guy, this is the dumbest line. Google drive is easy as hell to use. Easier than the PCs I used in the 80’s, that’s for sure

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Google Drive is tedious as hell to use. The UI is utter garbage. Yes, eventually you can get it to do what you want but it is absolutely painful, especially with its background operations that are not reflected in the UI (e.g. you delete something large, it blocks you from deleting the seemingly empty shared drive until that background operation is done but doesn’t tell you why in the UI).

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    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What? There’s so many limitations on how you can move and manage files! You can’t even copy directories! That was a basic command in the 80’s.

      Sure it has a UI, which makes some things easier, but there were fewer limitations in the 80’s on what you could and couldn’t do.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay this article is dog shit but Google Drive has absolutely awful search so I’m not defending them there.

    Subjectively, material design in its newest iteration is just also ugly as sin too, android 8 - android 10 was peak android, get these fucking pastels and overly large buttons off my phone and bring back the white/blue simplicity of yesteryear dammit.

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    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gmail on mobile is pretty horrendous as well.

      Me: “Hey Google, can you pull up the emails with links to the concert tickets I purchased a few months back?”

      Google: “Here is every correspondence you’ve had with the ticket smashed into a single email with only the latest one visible”

      “But I purchased two tickets separately that came in different emails, how do I just get to those?”

      “🤷‍♂️”

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