I’ll just be the dick here. Nest team deserves to be laid off. This is the Nest interface you get to “schedule” when to set what temperature to your AC. It has to be a weekly schedule. Not daily. Not monthly. No one time option. And when you click anywhere it’s a guess on both the time and temperature that you want to set. There is no number input or any other input method. As a key function of any AC, this UI has been there for several years, possibly since the beginning of Nest. What’s that? People don’t use this feature enough to make an impact? Guess what? If you design it better maybe people will actually use it. Ever thought of that?
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10000% agree
“People don’t use this feature enough to make an impact?” - This is such a common problem across big tech!! Always chasing the lowest hanging fruit
Nowadays even Google maps give me anxiety. Takes me to a longer routes and totally moron level directions.
My favorite feature is when it suggests random routes that will take way longer while you are driving. Makes me think there's a roadblock ahead, why would I take a different route that'd take me 30mins longer Gmaps why
Yea but fixing this won’t get me promoted 😤
Why they just don't get together and launch a new parallel product line call it Lair, Den or Burrow that does exactly same thing, huh?
Not only that but no matter how many times you opt out, it likes to start moving your set temperatures "seasonally"
Mine are hardcoded at this point as they stay that way, but yeah, the UX to control all of this is trash.
Nest is, and always has been, a huge missed opportunity for Google. Started with some great ideas, but the quality of the apps and experience never improves. Can’t even save any of the 24/7 video you pay to record anymore, can’t see all the stuff in one app, obvious improvements to the experience never happen. They’ve had a half baked “web viewer” for the cameras in beta for 2+ years and it will probably never have the basic feature set the old version has. So frustrating because even though it sucks, no one else really does it any better.
Wyze is alright if you are fine with them sending your data to China
Wyze is really not that much better either. I was hoping Ubiquity would come into this space. It would be expensive but would be reliable and supported for the long-term.
What a horrible and childlike thing to say. A team doesn’t “deserve to be laid off“ because of a UX flaw. Are there problems with the product? Of course! But laying off an entire team is not a solution to making it a better product — more systemic changes regarding feature prioritization need to be addressed. And that is a leadership issue, not an issue for those at the front lines. So you’re either just ignorant and unempathetic, or you’re just saying this to be provocative. Disgusting.
Currently most of the Google Nest team is just a maintenance sustaining group. It is bound to close soon and will be renamed as Pixel Home if the leadership decides to give it a second chance.
Yeah, it would be best just to eliminate this team and create a new one that actually wants to make the nest brand successful. Some of the people who are good can move to the new team, but it’s clear from the last *decade* that the current team isn’t doing shit.
The whole Google home product line sucks to be honest.
Does. But lesser evil than alexa
Puzzling thing is that they used to work great but somehow stagnated or simply got terrible overtime. Speakers for instance worked like a charm in group 2-3 years ago. Today you tell one speaker to play music and one random one will start playing wtf all they needed is not to touch a thing, now they are removing 20+ features wtf