Basically fuck google, and fuck people who don't know how to put a fucking webpage together. I've been spending a lot of time on google docs recently, and I'm getting sick the UI, the lacking features (seriously, they didn't even have the ability to do a running header until sometime in the last year), and the fuckery.
It's probably not even that bad of a program, but I'm getting sick of it. Probably just cabin fever.
See my earlier rant:
It's all over engineered but nothing works, simple but obfuscated and incomprehensible. That's not even getting into all the garbage ads and "SHARE MEEE" buttons on websites.
Now I open Chrome and go to my bookmark manager and I get tiles of ALL of my bookmarks on one screen. My folders are there, but there isn't a way to see only the bookmarks that aren't in folders, they are mixed in with all the others. Thanks Google, what was previously usable is now not, but it has more colors, so there's that guess. ugh.
The Evernote web beta is frustrating too. It looks nicer, less distracting. However, everything is constantly resizing, disappearing, popping up, features I don't know about are hidden.
I appreciate good design, I like when things look clean and get out of my way, I like new approaches. I run linux on one of my machines and generally really like Gnome 3. The web though... ugh.
So i am a developer and i spend a lot of time working on web uis so i have some interest in this area from the non-user side of the screen.
I think a lot of this new ui crap is similar to what you see with toothpaste, they perfected it years ago but markets value change and hype. Unchanging things can be viewed as stagnant. Hence you see an emergence of crap experiences.
I appreciate good web design, but when I'm feeling grumpy I sometimes just wish every website was like Berkshire Hathaway's.
IMO that's how the internet should look... Can we go back to BBSs?