Stefan Mileschin

Infosec professional warns

Daniel Miessler, a respected infosec professional in San Francisco, has dashed out a snotogram about Google’s design and user experience choices.

Specifically he said that while Google's GUI is for Google Analytics, Google Apps, and countless of their other properties -- not to mention their multiple social media network attempts, like Google+ and Wave has been annoying for years, lately things have been getting more dire.

The said that Gmail is a “cesspool” and “nobody would ever design a webmail interface like that, starting from scratch.”

Google Docs needs to look and behave more like Notion, or Quip, or any of the other alternatives that made progress in the last decade, Miessler said.

Google Analytics is so complicated that you need a college degree in it to work properly. “ Google just rolled out Google Analytics 4 -- I think -- and the internet is full of people asking the same question I am. "Is this a real rollout?"”

Ten years ago Google was cool and came out with the new design language. Materialise, or whatever it was. “ Cool story, and cool visuals. But it's not about the graphics, it's about the experience,” Miessler said.

Now Google appears to be sitting on billions of dollars and be unable to hire product managers that can create usable interfaces.

Gmail runs on an interface that's tangibly worse than anything else out there and Google Docs get completely obsoleted by startups, Miessler said.

“While there are those who say Google has become the new Microsoft, or the new Oracle, but damn -- at least Microsoft is innovating. At least Oracle has a sailing team, or whatever else they do. I'm being emotional at this point,” Miessler said.

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