Dimo Trifonov
@denull · Founder of @feeld
I used to love Quip because of its invisible UI. All these buttons and heavy typefaces are making it a lot more uncomfortable to use, hope they revert to less UI... However the reminder feature is totally welcome!
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Joe Ringenberg
@jringenberg · Product Design, Wistia
@denull Totally agree, and it looks like a lot of others do too. The old UI was focused on a clean and clear space for writing; this new one feels focused on buttons and features. I don't think that shift worked well for Evernote, hopefully Quip can avoid that.
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Fatih Turan
@fatihturan · User Interface and Interaction Designer
@denull They reverted Quip's UI to old one. :) EDIT: Opps. Sorry, it was misinformation. But I hope they do it.
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Dimo Trifonov
@denull · Founder of @feeld
@jringenberg I guess it was expected after Salesforce acquired them. After all they are probably trying to make it Word/Pages user friendly. Such a shame... We've been experimenting with Dropbox Paper and Notion but nothing compares to Quip.
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Stowe Boyd
@stoweboyd · futurist, researcher, iconclast
@denull @jringenberg What's the 'shame' part? If you simply are writing -- an essay, for example -- all these new affordances don't inhibit you. It's only if you are trying to create a document that acts as a 'work processing' context--with assignment, due dates, and so on--that these controls show up. And if you are doing 'work processing' and not word processing, you need those capabilities.
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Dimo Trifonov
@denull · Founder of @feeld
@stoweboyd @jringenberg One word - Distraction.
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Joe Ringenberg
@jringenberg · Product Design, Wistia
@denull @stoweboyd Yup, it's not the features that are the shame, it's the poor visual design that distracts from the writing.
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