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Re:Google Hangouts by gomox on Monday August 17, 2015 @08:26PM (#10076961)
It's just the UX guys at Google acknowledging this article from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10036061

Namely, Joe-the-user can't see the hamburger menu at the top and looks for more tools where they are supposed to be: after the first few tools. So the UX guys at Google put an affordance there for him [0].

I've seen this quite a few times, especially for interactions where the search box is within the hamburger-driven overlay. Some sites/systems add a dummy, redundant search box on the main UI that just opens the hamburger menu and focuses on the newly-displayed search box.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

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Re:Google Hangouts by calinet6 on Monday August 17, 2015 @09:14PM (#10077089)
Sure it's important that people grok that there's more stuff, but for pete's sake, pick one affordance.

That just looks as clunky and indecisive as a drawer with both a knob and a handle.

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