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Google is a multinational company which evolved from a search engine.
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Is there a known reason why Google favors paid content over free?
This is something I've always wondered about. Maybe I'm too old and got stuck in Berner Lee's Internet dream, but it truly shocks me that between a free and a paid version of the same content, Google ...
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Using a single button for sign-in and sign-up
What's the best label to put on the OAuth button (google/facebook) which allows both registration and signing in?
We really see little sense of having two separate buttons which does exactly same ...
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interview users best practices
I'm aware that I can't mention specific software brands or platforms, or even discuss software bugs, so I'm going to try to frame my question from a methodological perspective.
I used a well-known ...
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Sign in with Google Button for Sign Up
Our app will use the Sign in with Google button for Sign up and Log in. After gathering information, the end result of the sign up is to log the user into a different area than the Log in button - ...
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Using a Google Spreadsheet to feed input to a web application
I am building a mathematical web application, that gets as input a large matrix of numbers, and does some mathematical calculations on it. The common ways to feed input into such an application are:
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is enable Google reCAPTCHA for e-commerce good or not?
I am opening anew e-commerce website, my question is is enable Google reCAPTCHA user friendly or not?
actually,I am planing to disable reCAPTCH for users for the first three months that will make ...
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Custom Google and Apple Signup/in buttons
I want to modify the default sign up and sign in buttons of Google and Apple for an iOS project keeping the changes as per their guidelines.
By default, these are like this:
And I want to use it like ...
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Is there any research on the effectiveness of Google One tap sign up and sign in implementation for sites/apps? [closed]
I'm having a hard time finding anything related to if Google's One tap sign up and sign (https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web) in really helps or drives sign-in/up. Not even finding much ...
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Why does front page of Google.com give no feedback when trying to search when nothing's entered?
Carry out the following experiment:
Go to google.com,
Leave the "search" field empty,
Click "Google search"
I was having a discussion with my friend about how applications should ...
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What was the design language used by Google prior to modern Material design?
You can still find it in very few places. Like Google Groups (see example). But even that, understandably, is getting a redesign, one that hides quite a bit of functionality and seems to dispose ...
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User signs up using their Facebook account logs and then logs in with their (same email) Google account. Now what?
Our web app (a personal calendar-management tool) offers both Facebook and Google as social login providers. Sometimes a user who originally signed up using a Facebook account tries to log in using ...
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Cumulative Layout Shift is becoming a ranking factor - (Thought and what it means?)
Has anyone heard of the Cumulative Layout Shift becoming a ranking factor?
I need to prepare for it, but really trying to work out what it all means from a design point of view, it seems it is aimed ...
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Why are Google search results aligned to the left? [closed]
While doing some research on search results patterns I realised Google still to this day shows the results list on the left on desktop while the remaining 99% of websites are aligned to the center of ...
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The "Hey Google" interaction - Dark UX Pattern?
Let's understand what we are talking about here -
1) On android phones - the moment you say, "Hey/Ok Google", Google starts acting based on your voice commands, i.e. becomes voice-activated.
2) On ...
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Why is Google using this anti-pattern sign in feature? [closed]
Google has a feature "Sign in with Google" that auto appears on any site that supports it.
This seems to have harmful UX repocussions?
If Apple, Facebook, and others follow the same pattern we'll ...
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Chips and Button Sizes in Google Material Design
If the minimum tap area is 48x48dp (reference: material design accessibility), then what is the logic behind chips being 32dp in height (specs here) and buttons being 36dp in height (specs here)?
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Video without a scrubber [closed]
In google's machine learning crash course they have embedded youtube videos without scrubbers if you need to seek through the video you have to use the buttons below the video. Why are they doing this?...
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Why has Google increased radius of UI elements? [closed]
It has been like a month I have noticed Google is testing UI elements such as inputs and buttons that are curvier. As you see in the screenshot, theinput has much more radius than the previous one.
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Fullname vs username and how to ask for username after Social Login
I am building a mobile application where users can post/rate songs they like.
I have three ways of registering: email+password, facebook login and google login.
From my personal experience, some ...
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If the hamburger menu is bad UX why do Google still use it [closed]
A lot of Google's applications make use of the hamburger menu, including the FABs without descriptive text for the icons.
Why do they still keep at it since most UX researches/analytics have proved ...
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How to clarify ambiguity of the left arrow in google search autosuggestions?
Until recently I found the arrow next to each of the suggested keywords are tappable and will prepopulate the string to the search box for users to further refine the keyword before performing the ...
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How to do address autocomplete right?
I'm working on a webshop that wants to introduct automatic address completion using googles Place Automcomplete API. My main focus is usability and getting it right isn't exactly easy. My main ...
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Purpose of Google Results Speed Indicator
What purpose does the speed indicator (the 0.44 seconds in the image below) serve the user when using Google search?
Does this have a specific use to a specific user of Google or is it just Google ...
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Google new Task application inconsistent UI
Visual design is part of user experience design, hence its safe to ask question related to visual inconsistency on this platform.
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If anyone of you has used the new google task application, ...
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Why Google Search bar and logo is not vertically center in large screen? [closed]
Its comes to my mind when i do googling on a large screen Desktop. the logo and search bar area is Horizontally Center (Near about, not so measurable)
but not Vertically Center in case of large ...
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Google travel distance vs. straight line distance
I have an mid-sized(ish) app that plots a user's home address on a map, along with a number of locations. Those other locations are also displayed in a list. Each location has the distance from home ...
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Why is the Google Maps Places Autocomplete API so uncommon in signup forms, but so common in search?
When looking at signup forms, the standard is always to break it down in address, house number, city, zip code, country; all in separate input fields for the user. But when you look at search on ...
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Why google is not following material design on gmail? [closed]
Almost every app in gsuite including google drive, keep, classroom etc. are on material guidelines including the forum but why not Gmail?
Is there a particular reason for this?
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Emphasize the word "Google" without using their logo [closed]
I've requested permission from Google to use the above presentation. I suspect they'll say no, since they generally don't allow use of the logo. It's a two-week wait, so in the meantime, what's an ...
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What is the rationale for google analytics removing icons next to bold numbers?
I am wondering if Google provided a rationale in their design guidelines for what seems to have been a change in their interface design for the Google Analytics mobile app.
The difference (I could be ...
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Why is the Google Search Results page not responsive? [closed]
As every web developer/designer, I read many articles about why responsive web design is important. We are also often told, that you can learn a lot by observing the UI (and optionally the code itself)...
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Gmail vs Google Inbox. How bad would it be if Google kills Gmail now? [closed]
What's the difference between GMAIL and INBOX and why does google develop both of them? (even due they are both mail agents)
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Why does Google add o's to their name to signify result pages? [closed]
Why have the word Google spelled with ten o's? Why have it there at all?
The red letter o signifies the page you are on in correlation to the page number below it, but why have that connection in the ...
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Google Chrome's setting/option icon a variation of the hamburger menu?
I noticed on a recent Google Chrome update that the setting/option icon changed from the wrench to three dots, which I thought was interesting as this seemed to related to the 'more' symbol but turned ...
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What does the google search homepage ( https://www.google.co.in/?gws_rd=ssl ) lack in design? [closed]
Google has kept its homepage clean with minimum possible buttons, but what still this homepage lacks from design point of view? Or what else could be added to it or removed to make it a better design?
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Should I rely on Google Translate?
The majority of my users access my website with Google Chrome. Google Chrome has Google Translate built-in, which lets you translate webpages. Instead of manually creating separate website locales for ...
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Is not redesigning an entire website at once bad for UX?
I have a website that I recently updated. I redesigned most of the website, but there's still some pages and features that are "old." Will this be a bad experience for users when they navigate to a ...
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Lack of ability to delete goals in Google Analytics - is this poor UX?
If you set up goals in Google Analytics there is no method to delete them, although you can deactivate them (i.e. switch them off) instead. This is documented on various sites such as http://www....
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Why does Google Drive use a dialog for renaming files? [closed]
In all modern file managers, when you rename a file, it allows you to rename the file on the label in the file manager like this:
Windows, macOS, and Dropbox's web interface all have this behavior. ...
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Is Google Trends incremental search intuitive?
I am trying to create an incremental search in my website where each searched term is added to the previous searched terms. I found that using a single search input for that confuses users. They ...
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What are the advantages of websites (eg:Gmail) not using a cursor:pointer for interactive elements?
Taking the example of Gmail, when you hover over "Sign out" or "Add account" buttons
the cursor is instead of
Is there any particular reason behind that? There are clear drawbacks (less ...
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How to change our design or content that users open our website when they see the content? [closed]
Maybe the title is not clear; Because the subject is a little special
We are well ranked website and our users are really important for us, and we really care about them. We even don't advertise on ...
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What is this Google Apps popout menu called?
What is this menu called in UX/UI parlance?
I want to implement this type of menu in my UI (ASP.NET MVC 5). My default styling is done with Bootstrap 3+.
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Is the following approach better for mobiles? Missing 'save' option in Google Keep
This is one of the example from Google's approach with almost all online products these days...
In Keep, when you create/edit a note it is automatically saved(ofcourse) but you don't get any ...
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What you call this web site menu element?
The Google material design is new, I like to know how you call this menu element, or how will you name it:
The page link:https://developers.google.com/ios/guides/cocoapods
**The item we are talking ...
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Google Fonts within enterprise applications? [closed]
I know that using Google Fonts for websites are no cost but what about embedding those fonts within an enterprise application that the user doesn't access through the web? I've yet to see anything ...
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How did watsapp keep an image in the url? [closed]
See the globe picture? I could not find an answer in any website as to how they pulled this off. Any clue?
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Why does Google's main page have such a modest design? [closed]
A lot of modern-ish websites have slick effects: transitions, animations, filters, etc.
But on Google, the main page doesn't have a single animated transition. No input, button, or link state change ...
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Why does Google remove special characters from search?
It's worth noting not all special characters are removed, for example C# and C++ (programming languages) return results, $ returns results, etc.
However, I tried searching for a code segment that I ...
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Google Design Cards - Rich Media Giffs Acceptable?
Going by the specs for Google Design Cards, does anyone know if animated gifs are acceptable for the rich media?
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