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Ah, well spotted. I didn't notice that. I stand by my original point though, why should I have to wait?

• DougBTX 17y ago
  They are making you wait so that users on their happy path have less distractions. Worth noting that the animation lasts about half a second, not three. And that people on the happy path will not need to wait. And that the main problem isn't the wait, but that if you want Mail or News you have to move the mouse before you know where to click, so the initial movement will be in the wrong direction.
  • nooneelse 17y ago
    If the fade in elements stay in the same places, then won't low-level/muscle memory take care of the initial movement being usually in the right direction?
    • DougBTX 17y ago
      I'd entertain the possibility, but I'm not sure. I hardly ever access google.com directly. I mostly use Chrome, where I search from the address bar directly, and in Safari and Firefox I search using the "g %s" bookmark from the address bar. I have gmail as a thumbnail in the Chrome new tab start page, and in other browsers I type it in directly. So, no anecdotes from me. Hopefully the Google guys have tested this themselves, and perhaps it does happen.