Justin James
Feb 8, 2022

Google has good engineering in terms of "their stuff doesn't break" but their UI/UX is absolutely terrible. For the most part, I find their products unusable. When I realized that in Gmail, you don't need any keyboard modifier like ALT or CTRL for typing letters on the keyboard to suddenly start deleting mail or whatever, all you needed to do was think you were in the reply box area but accidentally not, I stopped using it unless I was forced to. To this day, it still works that way. You have to have something very wrong to thing that accidentally clicking the wrong part of the screen, starting to type, and having your inbox irrevocably destroyed is a suitable consequence. I'm just really blown away by the bad decisions at Google on this stuff.

J.Ja

Justin James
Justin James

Written by Justin James

OutSystems MVP & longtime technical writer

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