Comments on: Google Wave’s Goodbye http://almaer.com/blog/google-waves-goodbye blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Szőnyegtisztító http://almaer.com/blog/google-waves-goodbye/comment-page-1#comment-46941 Szőnyegtisztító Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:19:26 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2736#comment-46941 I'm not sorry! Find a better one! I’m not sorry!
Find a better one!

]]> By: Alan Hogan http://almaer.com/blog/google-waves-goodbye/comment-page-1#comment-46917 Alan Hogan Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:18:37 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2736#comment-46917 I don’t think Wave failed because it was too ahead of its time, but rather because the UI and UX were terrible. Honestly, I naïvely expected Google to do a complete overhaul of the UI once they realized how broken it was (can you explain to me the difference between removing a wave from my inbox, muting it, archiving it, marking it as read, and deleting it? Especially since there *was* no true delete?). But rather than take that necessary step, the decided to abort. They did’t even get rid of their stupid pseudo-scrollbars! I think it boils down to nothing more than engineer hubris and a company-wide lack of appreciate for UX design. Thoughts? I don’t think Wave failed because it was too ahead of its time, but rather because the UI and UX were terrible.

Honestly, I naïvely expected Google to do a complete overhaul of the UI once they realized how broken it was (can you explain to me the difference between removing a wave from my inbox, muting it, archiving it, marking it as read, and deleting it? Especially since there *was* no true delete?). But rather than take that necessary step, the decided to abort. They did’t even get rid of their stupid pseudo-scrollbars!

I think it boils down to nothing more than engineer hubris and a company-wide lack of appreciate for UX design.

Thoughts?

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