how not to design “top apps of the year” lists. Huge, meaningless, painfully boring illustrations nobody is interested in and small, barely recognizable app icons people actually came for. Don’t
this happened yesterday. Some unknown popup popped up and demanded immediate attention. It said my data wasn’t backed up. What data? It didn’t say. The name on the notification was “Google Play services” which wasn’t very enlightening: I don’t keep any data in Google Play, let alone its services.
Ok, let’s click and see what’s it about, I thought. Which lead me to the screen of an unknown origin. It said words “back up” three times (five times if we count notification) but that didn’t make it any clearer.
Dear developers! If you want to bother us users with a favor, at least take your time to explain what it is about. No, repeating “back up” five times is not an explanation. Thank you
Ok, let’s click and see what’s it about, I thought. Which lead me to the screen of an unknown origin. It said words “back up” three times (five times if we count notification) but that didn’t make it any clearer.
Dear developers! If you want to bother us users with a favor, at least take your time to explain what it is about. No, repeating “back up” five times is not an explanation. Thank you
transparency is ugly. It doesn’t automatically make your UI lighter nor does it add “another dimension” to the UI. It’s just noise and dirt and it makes everything messy no matter how hard you tried to clean it up. It has no function (it would be foolish to pretend someone could see anything through that “glass”) yet it distracts the hell out of me. Don’t
all of the sudden new Android 8.1 started to display those little arrows next to every notification. Remember Windows 95 shortcuts? These look exactly the same.
As I understand, they mean “you can reply to that notification”. But the language is all wrong: if you put something next to the person avatar it’s supposed to reflect person status or some other property of that person. Here, it’s supposed to mean affordance for you. I’m also not sure why we needed these arrows when big “reply” buttons were already there under each notification.
Sadly, it’s really hard to ignore those arrows because they are all bright and foremost for some reason. Do you really think that fact that you can write a reply is more important than the picture of a person who wrote the message? Seriously?
As I understand, they mean “you can reply to that notification”. But the language is all wrong: if you put something next to the person avatar it’s supposed to reflect person status or some other property of that person. Here, it’s supposed to mean affordance for you. I’m also not sure why we needed these arrows when big “reply” buttons were already there under each notification.
Sadly, it’s really hard to ignore those arrows because they are all bright and foremost for some reason. Do you really think that fact that you can write a reply is more important than the picture of a person who wrote the message? Seriously?
for some time I’ve been wondering why Google started reporting that I’m 2-3 mins from home when I was clearly at least half an hour away. Turned out that was _time of the notification_, not the actual information. But the context was so strong it was almost impossible to read it any other way
I love good UI animations. They are natural, visual, easy to read and immediately obvious. Except when they aren’t.
Here I’m trying to save a picture to the desktop by dragging it there. I’ve done it million times, and usually it works. But not this time. It just silently gets pulled back to the source. Why? What happened? Why did the drag failed? Was it something I did? Is there a technical reason? Is computer in the bad mood today?
No clue. It just won’t save ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks for at least notifying me about it with this cute animation
Here I’m trying to save a picture to the desktop by dragging it there. I’ve done it million times, and usually it works. But not this time. It just silently gets pulled back to the source. Why? What happened? Why did the drag failed? Was it something I did? Is there a technical reason? Is computer in the bad mood today?
No clue. It just won’t save ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks for at least notifying me about it with this cute animation
that moment when you install an official LiveJournal application in a vain hope that at least it can show you comment feed in a decent way. Nope. All those notifications open POST page right at the top, with comments waaaaay down below and collapsed.
meet Aerolab, “the digital agency”. They “design and develop digital_products for mobile and web, that people love to use.”
Apparently, they must be thinking people _love_ to use sliding headers. But because they are modern and digital and all that, they improved on the tradition by making header totally white and putting exactly zero content in it. It’s just a big empty white box that obscures your view and appears as a punishment for you scrolling up
Apparently, they must be thinking people _love_ to use sliding headers. But because they are modern and digital and all that, they improved on the tradition by making header totally white and putting exactly zero content in it. It’s just a big empty white box that obscures your view and appears as a punishment for you scrolling up
does anyone know how Google came up with the idea to fusion weather and news into the same app? As a result, it’s impossible to use it to actually learn what the weather is like.
Granted, it opens up on the weather screen first, but it’s the weather at some random location. In the case above, I was travelling in Vienna, lived in Moscow before that, and it showed me the weather in Novosibirsk (twice).
So I used search, right? And it fulfilled that: it showed me the Vienna news, apparently.
Whatever alien logic it is, I went to settings, only to find that city selection is neither in General nor in Country & Language. It is possible to specify a city, but you have to go to “Local sections” and configure weather and news at the same time.
I know Google is very proud of their Search business, but is searching for weather report too much to ask?
Granted, it opens up on the weather screen first, but it’s the weather at some random location. In the case above, I was travelling in Vienna, lived in Moscow before that, and it showed me the weather in Novosibirsk (twice).
So I used search, right? And it fulfilled that: it showed me the Vienna news, apparently.
Whatever alien logic it is, I went to settings, only to find that city selection is neither in General nor in Country & Language. It is possible to specify a city, but you have to go to “Local sections” and configure weather and news at the same time.
I know Google is very proud of their Search business, but is searching for weather report too much to ask?