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Why is the Google Search Results page not responsive?
Responsive design is best practice, except for the most high-end websites
Responsive, mobile-first design gets you the most “bang for the buck” for most web sites or applications. Effectively you can ...
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What is this Google Apps popout menu called?
What's it called?
I'm not sure if a canonical name exists. But here are some terms that help describe it...
It is a type of menu. (Google Material Design: Menus)
In iOS and Bootstrap parlance it is a ...
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Google Chrome's setting/option icon a variation of the hamburger menu?
As a matter of fact I'm quite sure that between the wrench and the kebab icon there was a hamburger.
Either way, the most likely reason for the icon is consistency . This kebab menu icon is the same ...
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Why Google Search bar and logo is not vertically center in large screen?
As mentioned by @locationunknown in the comments, the vertical position doesn't change when the window is resized.
But to answer your question. I believe it is because Google doesn't want you to ...
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Why does Google Drive use a dialog for renaming files?
Well, I tried to get the answer from the design team (UENO. Created the interface, the renaming part is as it is since then), They simply can't answer it.
I believe that renaming in a modal doesn't ...
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Chips and Button Sizes in Google Material Design
Based on the Layout & Technology section of the Accessibility page, the tap area continues to be, at minimum, 48x48dp, thanks to padding:
Touch targets are the parts of the screen that respond ...
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Is the following approach better for mobiles? Missing 'save' option in Google Keep
This has been around for quite some time now and I can think of one app that does this very well. Word Online accessible through OneDrive looks like the following. You get a saving notification and a ...
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Why does Google's main page have such a modest design?
This is well discussed in a brilliant book: Marissa Mayer and the fight to save Yahoo! by Nicholas Carlson.
Google won over Yahoo in Search because Yahoo's majority of income came from their ...
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In Google Maps, why did Google use back arrow icon instead of "X" close for search results list when its clearly a layer on top of the main interface?
It seems like you're asking two things:
Why was the ← used instead of ×?
Why is this search bar z-indexed above the other content?
RE: Question 1
In Material Design, × represents "clear" in text ...
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Why has Google increased radius of UI elements?
There's an interview about this redesign published on the Google Chrome Blog.
Alex Ainslie, Chrome's lead designer states:
We’re introducing a major refresh on Chrome across all platforms, which ...
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Google Fonts within enterprise applications?
This technically isn't the right place to ask the question... but all fonts offered by Google are open source fonts. You can freely use it, embed it or modify it to your heart's content.
All of the ...
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Why does Google add o's to their name to signify result pages?
Few reasons;
"O" is part of their name and during the early years, they needed
gimmicks like these to help users memories their brand. That "job" has been done well and is no longer needed though.
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The "Hey Google" interaction - Dark UX Pattern?
2) Can this be termed as dark UX?
Short Answer: No.
Why?
Because Dark Pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with ...
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Why does front page of Google.com give no feedback when trying to search when nothing's entered?
Just a hunch on my part - I have no involvement in Google: It's to emphasize the simplicity of the interface.
Google's homepage was designed to be super simple. At the time that was a bold move ...
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Why does Google Drive use a dialog for renaming files?
Let's go on a journey.
1) Mac : As a user I will select file, click on option of renaming the same, hit enter or click any where. The file will get the name
2) Windows : Same as Mac
3) Drop box : ...
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What you call this web site menu element?
It is a tab, styled according to the Material Design guidelines as you hinted.
According to the Navigation Pattern from Google:
Tabs allow users to quickly move between a small number of equally ...
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Is Apple's or Google's meaning of the three-horizontal-bar icon more popular?
Over the years, things have changed somewhat.
Chrome has changed its menu icon to three vertical dots to comply with the Material Design HIG:
Apple has changed its drag-and-drop icon to be visually ...
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If the hamburger menu is bad UX why do Google still use it
Unless you are able to get a hold of Google's design team directly, you likely aren't going to get a definitive answer to this beyond the explanations and technical descriptions given in the Material ...
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User signs up using their Facebook account logs and then logs in with their (same email) Google account. Now what?
I think the best solution would be that every account is associated to the email. Once they log in with one social then it's linked.
So let's say I have google and facebook, I connect google and then ...
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Is the following approach better for mobiles? Missing 'save' option in Google Keep
This technique in itself is usable because ti allow you to remove one passage in the process of saving.
In a scale of intuitiveness that goes form unusable to intuitive i inserti this technique in the ...
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What are the advantages of websites (eg:Gmail) not using a cursor:pointer for interactive elements?
It will be an attempt to make the app feel more like it is OS native, and less like a website. The UI should be able to provide clear signals about what is interactive and what is not. If a user is ...
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Lack of ability to delete goals in Google Analytics - is this poor UX?
According to lunametrics.com:
Once you set up a goal, it only shows up in your reports from that point forward. It does not apply to historic data. This is because goal setup is part of the ...
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Gmail vs Google Inbox. How bad would it be if Google kills Gmail now?
Google will not kill GMail, even if they kill GMail and ask users to use Inbox, people will start using Inbox.
A few factors why people will use Inbox if Google at all kills GMAIL: Google Search, ...
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What does the google search homepage ( https://www.google.co.in/?gws_rd=ssl ) lack in design?
The short answer is - nothing. Google has invested months and years of their time and money into researching their ux. Their home page contains exactly what their user needs.
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Why is the Google Search Results page not responsive?
TL;DR: A different design, even if more convenient, might make the user loose the familiarity with Google brand.
Very interesting question.
Even when a design might be more convenient, user-...
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Why google is not following material design on gmail?
I don't have any proof to back this up. However, Gmail has been around for 13 years. There are probably some people who have been using it for a very long time and don't want to learn a new layout.
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Google travel distance vs. straight line distance
This seems like not providing this quite relevant and useful information upfront would provide pretty significant friction for the user. Any treatment you provide might help to alleviate the symptoms, ...
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How to clarify ambiguity of the left arrow in google search autosuggestions?
As already pointed out, there are two problems with this feature –
low visibility
non-standard glyph which does not convey that the added text will be editable. It does convey that the selected item ...
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If the hamburger menu is bad UX why do Google still use it
I see this question as 2 parts:
Hamburger menu, if so much research has proven it to be poor UX, why does it still exist?
Why does a company so well known as Google still use it?
I'd like to answer ...
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