Google Fades?!
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- WhiteFace
How long has Google been doing the fade in thing?
- Jnr_Madison0
Not sure, a couple of days?
- ukit0
They are launching a new version of their search pretty soon.
- stewart0
geez, i was waiting for the thing to load or something.
until i moved my mouse onto the browser window.
dumb. they need to do some usability tests before throwing things online.- Yeh I'm sure Google skipped right over usability tests.luckyorphan
- it's not really a usability issue if it's a 3 second learning curve. you'll never "wait for it to load" ever again.rosem
- hans_glib0
typical techies - doing something just because they can, regardless of whether or not it's of any real benefit...
- Stugoo0
thier blog talked about it the other day, i still ahvent seen it yet...
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2…
- spraycan0
i posted it long time ago, :
http://www.qbn.com/topics/605816…
- spraycan0
stupid effect, really get on my nerves.
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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All Google design choices are justified using statistics, they test everything and everything even 5 pixel differences in spacing has to be backed up by numbers. The entire process is basically how a scientist would design something.
Not always a good thing
- Mojo0
Never noticed that, I like it.
So if you goto your google homepage and start typing, you only see what you /need/ to see. If you want everything else, move over the page
- welded0
I can't remember the last time I went to the Google home page.
- boobs0
I think it's stunning!
- graham0
havent visited the google homepage in years
- sseo0
"All in all, we ran approximately 10 variants of the fade-in. Some of the experiments hindered the user experience: for example, the variants of the homepage that hid the search buttons until after the fade performed the worst in terms of user happiness metrics."
how do you measure user happiness metrics?
- dMullins0
WAAA-FUCKIN-BOO-FUCKIN-HOO.
- Nightshade0
yeah, because their homepage was soooo cluttered and hard to use before.
- plash0
http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/g…
its part of the google update
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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http://stopdesign.com/archive/20…
Good article about how google designs things, from someone who left because of it.
- dropdown0
few weeks now.
- version30
lol at you that actually go to google.com to search something...
what's wrong with right click search google or the google search bar?