<story><title>Google Design</title><url>http://www.google.com/design/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troycarlson</author><text>Am I the only one who gets a headache trying to decipher tile layouts like this?  My eyes bounce back and forth and I still have no idea how the information is structured or what&amp;#x27;s important.&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that Google is sharing all of this though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>legohead</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve had Androids since way back, and while the UI has continuously gotten prettier, it has gotten harder and harder to use.&lt;p&gt;I can &amp;#x27;feel&amp;#x27; these new concepts as they roll them out, and then just get frustrated by them.  It feels like they come up with certain standards&amp;#x2F;rules, and then have to adapt their UIs to it.  So buttons are put in confusing places, with weird icons.&lt;p&gt;Take the phone dialer for instance.  I press the phone icon.  How do I get to a dial pad?  Why didn&amp;#x27;t it just give me a damn dialpad to begin with?  The dialpad button is a little blue square with dots in some kind of matrix that &lt;i&gt;sort of&lt;/i&gt; looks like a dialpad.  Every time - &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;every time&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - I make a call, I have to go through this ritual again of figuring out where the dialpad is.  Even though I know where it is, it doesn&amp;#x27;t look or feel right.  And that&amp;#x27;s just the beginning.  The whole dialing process, finding contacts, etc. has been totally broken.  Just so the UI is pretty and meshes well with itself.  And this is a phone!</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Design</title><url>http://www.google.com/design/#</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>troycarlson</author><text>Am I the only one who gets a headache trying to decipher tile layouts like this?  My eyes bounce back and forth and I still have no idea how the information is structured or what&amp;#x27;s important.&lt;p&gt;I appreciate that Google is sharing all of this though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morb</author><text>Back button doesn&amp;#x27;t work right on that site. It gets you back to the &lt;i&gt;top&lt;/i&gt; of previous page, it doesn&amp;#x27;t take you down where you were on the page. I love modern web UX.&lt;p&gt;(Firefox &amp;amp; Chromium. )</text></comment>