Yep, sucks!
Same everywhere across the gsuites

What's next? Adding a gray overlay to signify air pollution!

Software Engineer

This is just too bad. It was so good before.

Product Manager

Senior UX Designer

https://twitter.com/elizlaraki/status/1681369807487369216 
  
 Same lady. Old update. Hate the new update. Workflow is fucked.

15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps.  I still use it everyday.  Last week, the team dramatically changed the map’s visual design.

@elizlaraki on X

OG Google Maps designer on the recent redesign and what she would change about it. great thread!

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OG Google Maps designer on the recent redesign and what she would change about it. great thread!- Grapevine

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Google Maps is slowly falling behind

While I get that the app still looks very on brand, can’t help but feel how impractical and unoptimised the homescreen has become. 

30% of the first fold used for an illustration nobody can recall, even if they open the app 10 times a day. (You can try recalling now and see what i mean)

Minor, but the icons seem to have mixed stroke weights and an unnatural blend of sharp and round corners. 

Perhaps adding a “check bank balance” button on the first fold will he useful since this is a payment app and all. No point hiding it somewhere else. 

Currently, the People section precedes the Businesses section. Once a user taps on the down arrow on people, the list expands to multiple folds and it becomes extremely tiresome to scroll all the way down to collapse the section to access the rest of the page. 

Instead, why not have tabs for People and businesses, side by side. The tab could have a search button within it to easily find contacts. Currently, the search button is all the way on the header and disappears on scroll.

Showing photos and business of people is certainly helpful, but why not make a table that has a card that shows the profile pic, the last payment you sent to them, when you sent it and even a CTA for quick pay. Currently one needs two taps to pay someone. 

Bills can have better prominence somewhere on a difference section and could even use an floating bar type of component that shows up towards the bottom of a screen when bills are due. (Similar to what swiggy uses to show “your food is being prepared”) It might remind a user that certain bills are due in X days

And by god use the rest of the page to show the user some stats on how they spent money. I for one would consistently use the app that showed me my spending breakup. Tell user they spent x% more on food this month, compared to last or some such. 

And throw the offer & promotion section away. Its not 2018. Aint nobody playing games on here either.

Anyone else think google pay needs a major redesign?

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Hi everyone,

I recently completed the final round of interviews with Google, and the recruiter mentioned that the feedback was positive and that a team mapping round would be next. However, I'm currently not receiving any responses from her. A few days ago, I tagged Google's candidate support team, and the recruiter replied that the hiring manager for the team I was being considered for didn't find me to be a fit. She said she would look for another team, but it's been two weeks since that update, and I still haven’t heard back. It’s been almost two months since my final interview.

Does this seem normal? Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Thanks!

Google team mapping

Software Developer

Lately Ola's founder Bhavish has been discontinuing their dependencies on foreign products ranging from their own cloud servers to their own GPT's which people are specualting is just a wrapper over ChatGPT and lately launched their own Ola Maps which is itself a wrapper over OpenStreetMap. 

Will this benefit Indian Companies to compete with the global ones or will it just die down eventually. Ola folks can shed some light on it. 😁

What's your opinion on Ola's nationifacation of their products.

Ola is just doing big cost cutting. If cards played well they can be selling this as an API, cheaper alternatives to the big giants. Not the best but get the job down at a lower price. I am feeling optimistic about this for the only reason is Ola can switch back to the maps or chat gpt anytime they want. They are just building cheaper alternatives not something new.

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I’ll go first. Mine was a high quality alcohol delivery service. But I later realised how difficult it is to pull it off due to regulation.  
  
 BevMo is a huge company in the US doing the same

Business Development Manager

Hey everyone, 

It’s Saturday evening and I’m sharing a summary of the best posts on the platform from the last few days. 

Here’s the recap: 

1. Not a techie. Earning 1.75cr a month AMA by @BeReal : Huge AMA with really inspiring and to the point insights by @BeReal. “A different life is possible”.
https://share.gvine.app/yEWPAXXmZFfvduQ38


2. Are you too nice to people at work? by @coolgoose : One of the most helpful posts this week with some really in depth comments on how to break free from being nice at the cost of your efficacy 
https://share.gvine.app/pMhhfLbcMK1sLMm2A


3. Today is that day of the month, sab moh maya hai by @Milkman : User makes big bucks, other users got curious about how tax works in their case, I reconsidered my choice of building a startup 
https://share.gvine.app/rpRLHrn7wxDE7Rdf7


4. Thread about no clue🕵️‍♀️ by @DamnItAI : Super funny comments all around, no UX designers were harmed in the making of this post 
https://share.gvine.app/uiKDVSeZ11xq5mix8


5. Swiggy SOS by @majetti : A real watercooler-like conversation on what’s happening at Swiggy
https://share.gvine.app/ncjUgQ6zu3bQDFBt6

6. Our first organised AMA with a Director of Product Management from a Unicorn startup. It feels like we got a lot of good discussion with @pmsprint: https://share.gvine.app/HbpuRaJrhiEMW1yp9

And that’s what we have for this week. Feel free to share your best moments in the comments below or if I ended up missing something major 🙈

Have a great weekend everyone! :)

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Hi all, I have around 2 years of experience, and I am getting a chance to interview with Google. I am currently working on frontend, but I want to move to backend and I have been preparing for that, but with phone screen round coming up, if I tell them I have worked on Frontend, then I will definitely be considered for frontend role and if I lie there, then I might fuck up interview if they ask backend questions, any suggestions will be appreciated. What should I be doing in this case, Thank you! 
Please advise!

Interview w Google

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Recently we shifted from having community pictures and community names at the top of posts to now having users as the focus of the post. What do you think about this change? 

P.S 'Upload your own DP' feature dropping soon

What do you think about the new changes to GV feed UI?

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ok!! jab aayega tab dekh lenge, why are you spamming google ?

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Remember google was saying saying “A new look is coming soon”

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This is what happens when you are good at sales but bad at building a decent user experience. 
Remember, Apple Maps? They advertised it so much but it was not as good as GMaps. But eventually apple maps got better. I hope Ola Maps get better user experience in future.

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I have cleared the screening interview and have five rounds of interviews coming up for a UX II position. 

I'm seeking advice or mentorship to help me ace the 1:1 interviews and whiteboarding sessions. If anyone has tips, suggestions, or can recommend a mentor, free or paid, who specializes in preparing candidates for Google interviews, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

Hi, anyone from Google design here?

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