Google Tips

Wow. As a long-time user of almost (read: not G+) everything Google has made, I was just admiring the UI, thinking &quot;How nice of them to make this for people who don&#x27;t even know how to check their email...&quot; and then I spot this:<p><a href="https://www.google.com/get/googletips/card/ask-google-to-fetch-your-stuff/detail/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;get&#x2F;googletips&#x2F;card&#x2F;ask-google-to-fet...</a><p>Which I had no idea about.<p>This is a brilliant content and feature discovery tool. Any other company would&#x27;ve just created a long list of products with short descriptions for each.

Interesting. This appears to be an attempt to do some market research by Google--to find out which messages are resonating with their audience.<p>I wonder if it&#x27;ll work.

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This could go either way really. Either you think that Google is such a monstrosity with all these parts that don&#x27;t really fit together which makes for bad UX or you think that Google&#x27;s services are something we should be thankful for and that this display of free stuff is the kind of really nice UX only Google can deliver.

The fact that someone thought this was necessary emphasizes the amount of problems Google has with user experience design.

I don&#x27;t find the logic on this site

Chrome on Windows 7 and the text on the cards is difficult to read normally, and impossible on mouseover.

“See what videos your friends are posting (and adjust friendships accordingly)”

Since Google can&#x27;t get one of their flagship services, &quot;Google Now&quot;, to actually work[0], even after a year or so of user complaints, and this is on one of these cards, I&#x27;m not really motivated to try any of this other stuff out.<p>[0]<a href="http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/SJZxi4xGrkQ%5B101-125-false%5D" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;productforums.google.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;#!topic&#x2F;calendar&#x2F;SJZxi...</a> [0]