@Lorne Kates said:
@TDWTF123 said:
Like I said, what we're getting from Gmail is what normal people see.
Got non-asspull numbers for that?
Nope. But I'd bet Google does, having done their research before making the changes.
I'm astonished that you can't see it's obviously true. We all ignore most of what's on the screen most of the time, fixating on certain elements and masking off others. Most people are even capable of ignoring flashing banner ads, and giving them no more attention than the bezel of the monitor.
No, it's no surprise to me that people can walk straight past something every day for years without noticing it, nor that they can do exactly the same thing with a mouse and screen.
@Lorne Kates said:
Have you ever, ever, EVER heard anyone say "I can't figure out how to send an email!" If you have-- have you ever, ever, ever heard them ask it more than once?
You have clearly never done any tech support of any kind. Having actually supported ordinary users for stuff like email, I can tell you I'd much rather support the new Gmail interface than Outlook because there's so much less for the idiots to fiddle with or get distracted by.
@Lorne Kates said:
What do you think will happen if your IT department decides to hide 90% of the Outlook buttons in a corporation using a group policy?
The sets of people who care and people who know what a group policy is will likely be nearly homogeneous. Some reasonably large minority of users will at least notice a change, but will probably think it's a new version of Outlook. Maybe 0.1% of the users will actually have been using even just one of the removed buttons. The majority of users
will not even notice the change because as far as they're concerned, those buttons were always just background clutter.
@Lorne Kates said:
How in any fuck can you justify removing borders around input elements?
Wait, are you just complaining about the paint on the walls?
@Lorne Kates said:
Thank fuck auto manufactures aren't (always) designing UX like that. I mean, "99.9%" of people don't use D3, D2 and D1-- so let's engineer it away because it might confuse someone when they're trying to find "D".
Er, car manufacturers are doing their best along those lines. They're not as good at it as google, perhaps, but they're trying. Of course, they are in a much more mature field so radical change is less likely, but to take your specific example, there has indeed been a tendency towards PRND labelling instead of PRNDL23.