You could mark the conversation as unread, but this makes all the messages in that conversation unread. And the next time you open the conversation you have to remember which messages you already read and which ones you didn't get to yet. Since we at Google send and receive a lot of email, we found this pretty annoying. So we decided to fix it.Now if you're reading a conversation that had unread messages when you opened it and you mark it unread, Gmail will only mark those messages that were unread when you opened the conversation in the first place. It's a small change, but it's the little things that can make a UI feel right or wrong, and we hope this makes Gmail a little bit more right.
Official Gmail Blog: A small (but helpful) change to 'mark as unread'That is a welcome change for me :) Specially useful since I am registered on so many mailing lists. Can't keep a track of what I have to reply and what to skip. That happens when you do Usability tests and incorporate the changes suggested.
And this happens when you don't, and also ignore what the user has to say -
The feedback on Facebook's new look, which emphasizes a stream of Twitter-like status updates, is almost universally, howlingly negative. Why isn't CEO
Mark Zuckerberg listening to users? Because he doesn't have to, he's told employees. A tipster tells us that Zuckerberg sent an email to Facebook staff reacting to criticism of the changes: "He said something like 'the most disruptive companies don't listen to their customers.'" Another tipster who has seen the email says Zuckerberg implied that companies were "stupid" for "listening to their customers." The anti-customer
diktat has many Facebook employees up in arms, we hear.
I think Zuckerberg is being arrogant and is desperate after his failed attempt to buy in Twitter. Anyone remember Bill Gates saying to the AOL chief - "Either you do business with us or we throw you out of business!", am I right about the quote? Can't find references on the internet . . .
But Zuckeberg seems to be saying the samething to Twitter. But may I dare say - Facebook is not MS and Twitter is not AOL. I love twitter and am a regular at facebook. Infact, most of my personal contacts are in touch with facebook. And the new UI is nowhere TWITTER guys!!!
When the last time they changed the UI under Profile 2.0, contrary to many, I liked it. But when I visited the new home page... I say "IT SUCKS!!!!"
I thought facebook will listen to users and reverty it... But it seems to be stubborn about it!
I am lost on the home page... I visit my proifile, check out things as much as I can and log out. Probably will phase out facebook usage with time? Who all feel the same? Which Social network you'll go to?
I have all personal contacts on Orkut and professional on LinkedIn. Probably I'll totally move to these two. Though I loved Facebook much more than Orkut - Sorry GOogle on that one, I am ur fanboy!
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