Updated user interface for signing in to or signing up for your Google Account
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
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That seems like the worst time to add new functionality.
That was my fear when Apple rolled it out at the OS level -- that it would only ever be half useful because it just wouldn't become universally adopted.
Contrast that with, for example, 2x/3x retina resolution across apps and the web which is now totally standard. I almost never see icons or UX elements with blocky pixels anymore, except on extremely old forum software.
By this point I almost wish Apple would forcibly smart-invert everything that looks like light mode into dark mode at the OS level. Like trying to read Google News at night is a nightmare because half the articles are dark but half are light.
On desktop, I found it to have weird buttons, weird spacing, weird controls and layouts with hamburger menus all over the place.
In terms of UI, Android 11 was the last good Android. Anything with Material looks awful. In fact, I will likely switch to Linux or Sailfish OS if possible when I have to replace my Android 11 phone.
I'm also not a fan of Material You to be honest, the "colors from your background" gimmick just results in all the colours being muddy boring desaturated ones, and the general low contrast + rounded look just doesn't work for me.
Even on mobile it's easy to miss! Google makes it a white button with a thin gray shadow, usually against white rows separated by thin gray lines.
If you squint, it literally becomes invisible because its visible weight is identical to its surroundings.
IIRC it used to be the solid accent color with white text, so you couldn't miss it. But now it's almost invisible unless you know where to look for it. It really is baffling.
Flat design has been the attempt to try to create a unified design language across desktop and mobile, since most people are constantly switching between the two and using the same apps across both.
You’ll be amazed how clean yet unusable the flat design is when you turn it off after a week
This is the only sentence that matters.
So it’s at least a karmically neutral change. You didn’t win anything and I didn’t lose anything.
If I was unaware of the change, and somebody sent me a link, and I wanted more information about the change, and got sent a link to workspaceupdates.googleblog.com (without already knowing of it) I would think its a sophisticated phishing attempt. A corporation like google should really be pushing human trust through exclusive use of .google or .google.com
This is just their changelog page essentially, where every Workspace update is documented, no matter how large or small. The intended audience is Workspace admins.
On the other hand, why this trivial change is being upvoted here on HN as interesting news is totally baffling to me.
I know it’s a slight regression for password managers, it annoyed me at first, but I have made my peace with it as I understand the other security benefits. I’d recommend sorting your password manager out, I use 1Password and don’t have any problems. I think it’s something password managers will need to get better at quickly.
Splitting across two documents seems monstrous and probably insecure?
There's no point in blaming the pages -- blame lies with the password manager or browser/OS.
E.g. on iOS, Safari fills in your username just fine even when there's no password field. Whereas on iOS, third-party browsers (e.g. Chrome) won't. According to 1Password, it's a known bug that is up to Apple to support/fix in WebView. (And the fact that it works in Safari but not WebView seems a little anticompetitive...)
Here, "more modern" probably means that "this did not change for a long time, so we can say that it is modern if we change it"
And of course problems with multi account issues and workspace addons is whatever…
> End users: There is no end user setting for this feature — users see these improvements automatically. Visit the Help Center to learn more about the new Google sign-in page.
It's fascinating to see the shift in tone between admins and end-users. For admins they know that all admins want to know is if they can do anything about it which they can't. For end users though, they devolve into PR-speak and direct people to help center articles. Seeing these directly next to each other is surreal.
> There is no admin control for this feature.
> There is no end user setting for this feature
What was the point of all this press noise then? Even in the Google product, they've been pestering me with these useless "the sign in page is getting a new look" notices.
This all feels like a huge nothingburger. Maybe all the public communications was only published to support some PM's promotion case at Google.
Although the notification about "getting a new look" is important for security. After all, protecting yourself from phishing requires you to recognize that a site is legit. So showing that notification on the login page is a pretty obvious thing to do. (And I haven't seen it anywhere else.)