Yesterday I upgraded Chrome on Windows and they replaced the folder icons in the bookmarks bar. They changed it about a year ago, but there was a flag which allowed to revert it to the "old" interface. This flag is no longer effective.
Now two folder icons (ridiculous outlines of folders) side by side take up the space of three old yellow folders, and the menu item entries are all bold and super spaced, so I need to scroll a lot.
In every Google product I first set everything to compact mode.
What is it what makes these designers think "let's make this item take up a lot of space"? Don't they think that people also want as much on screen as possible?
To me this is a dark vs. light UI discussion: compact vs. spaced.
The one reason I loathe to use Dropbox web app was the big buttons. It's like they were designed to be projected for training and not to be used with a desktop. The main important view (the files list) only got 60% or so of the physical space.
Uggh, Chrome on Linux did the same thing. It honestly looks like someone updated Chrome but forgot to test on linux. Why are popup menus all bold and twice the size of system popup menus now?!?!??!
Yesterday I upgraded Chrome on Windows and they replaced the folder icons in the bookmarks bar. They changed it about a year ago, but there was a flag which allowed to revert it to the "old" interface. This flag is no longer effective.
Now two folder icons (ridiculous outlines of folders) side by side take up the space of three old yellow folders, and the menu item entries are all bold and super spaced, so I need to scroll a lot.
In every Google product I first set everything to compact mode.
What is it what makes these designers think "let's make this item take up a lot of space"? Don't they think that people also want as much on screen as possible?
To me this is a dark vs. light UI discussion: compact vs. spaced.