Re:Google Design
by pcurve on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @03:16PM
(#7946165)
I like Google products in general, but their UX is pretty mediocre and often counter intuitive. This vapid guideline is yet another example. I have my browser open fairly wide, and all I see is one paragraph of text.
Yet, if I halve the width of the browser while maintaining the height, I get more a lot more content. That's not really good responsive design.
I click introduction. Again, huge meaningless illustration and not even a shred of text in sight. What illustrations there are, don't even correlate to the accompanying text.
Now, once you start driving into Layout, Style, sections, things get more meaningful. But in order to get to those content, you need to use the hamburger icon to toggle the left nav, because left nav is collapsed by default.
This is a kind of design that invites 90% drop off rate.
Yet, if I halve the width of the browser while maintaining the height, I get more a lot more content. That's not really good responsive design.
I click introduction. Again, huge meaningless illustration and not even a shred of text in sight. What illustrations there are, don't even correlate to the accompanying text.
Now, once you start driving into Layout, Style, sections, things get more meaningful. But in order to get to those content, you need to use the hamburger icon to toggle the left nav, because left nav is collapsed by default.
This is a kind of design that invites 90% drop off rate.