I have no idea who is in charge of developing Notebook at Google (http://www.google.com/notebook). Since it's release I have used it. And I have liked the functionality. However, one aspect of it that I really never liked is the User Interface. So far, from most of the Google products that I have used, Google-Notebook has been the one with the worse User Interface ever! And that is why I am wondering who the heck is in charge of this project at Google. Creating an appealing UI for note-taking, sharing isn't that hard. Many times, I've imagined how the ideal UI would look like. Google has been able to create great simple UIs for most of their products (Gmail, anyone?). Why can't the same be applied to Google Notebook?
What is making me post about this is the fact that the UI has been recently updated and all I could say when I saw it was "Wow! This is totally unusable!" or "Oh my God! This is sooo horrible!"
I will post a bit more about this in the future. But I just thought I'd start somewhere as this has been irritating me for quite a while. It seems Google isn't paying much attention to some of their "smaller projects" as they do with the mainstream ones. But then again, what happens when someone comes up with a better "Notebook"?
Think about it Google, think about it...
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It's not often that I can say this about something Google developed, but I hate it too. Actually a lot of these services are starting to work on my nerves, especially del.icio.us and flickr.
ReplyDeleteTime to do our own stuff. ;)