Outlook UX - one good thing, one bad

This is the bad thing. Can you see the problem here? No scrollbars, no full filename on hover. This is the latest version of Outlook (Classic). Still not fixed after many years.

Here's the good thing:

When you have a bunch of notifications you can snooze them for 5, 10, 15 minutes, 1, 2 hours etc. If you snooze a single item for, say 15 minutes, then when it pops up again 15 minutes is the default. If you multi-select them all and then snooze for, say 1 hour, then when they are displayed again it doesn't default them all to 1 hour, but 10 minutes again. I think this is a good thing, because it makes you think about how long to snooze each one, rather than constantly pushing them into the future. You may not think it's a good thing.

 

Praise where I can - Google docs sensible toolbar hiding

I've recently come across Marcin Wichary's Unsung blog, and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's about "software craft and quality", and I find pretty much everything he posts really interesting. Some of it is about retrocomputing, which often piques my interest. I plan to blog about some of those things at some point. I thought I'd take inspiration from the blog and post about some good UI work rather than just moaning about ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h highlighting failures^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h areas for improvement. (Of which, there will be several I suspect, once I get started.)

I use Chrome's vertical tab feature, and it's very useful. However, at the width my screen is the full Google docs toolbar can't be seen. Rather than just show as much as it can, and hide the rest behind a "3 dots" menu, it hides all the related icons and displays them all in one go. This means that I don't have to hunt along the toolbar to see if the one I want to use is visible or not - I know that everything to do with paragraph formatting is behind the three dots.