Google ha anunciado una actualización de su interfaz de usuario de Meet para usuarios de computadoras de escritorio y portátiles, que se espera que comience a implementarse el próximo mes.
Updates to the video conferencing app web interface include improvements to video streams, the way you view and present meetings, and the navigation bar. Dave Citron, director of product management for Google Meet, said the improvements are intended to "deepen the meeting experience, regardless of how and where people participate."
Solve meeting fatigue
In a blog post, Citron said that by giving users more control over how they see themselves in meetings, Google hopes to reduce "meeting fatigue." Users can choose to have their video feed in a standard grid thumbnail or as a floating image, which can be resized, repositioned, or reduced entirely. Google said it will also add a setting to allow meeting attendees to turn off auto-wake for all Google Meet calls. Although available for free to the public, Meet is part of the Google Workspace office suite. Subscribers will receive additional tools in the update, including an autozoom feature, which zooms in and positions the user directly in front. Angela Ashenden, senior analyst for workplace transformation at CCS Insight, said this update represents an important feature update for Google because it fixes some of the stickiness in the Meet experience, which has caused it to lag behind some. of your competitors. “The ability to pin more than one video stream when there are multiple speakers, as well as clearly highlighting the active speaker and removing contextual controls that covered the bottom row of video streams or shared content, for example, all of this helps make the meeting experience more user-friendly and less intrusive," he said. With CCS Insight research showing the average person spends 1.7 hours a day on video calls, features that help reduce the fatigue experienced by employees are essential for providers who want to remain competitive.Ashenden said that allowing Google Meet users to opt out of shared content to create more space for viewing video panels and remove self-view from the screen helps reduce some of the friction associated with video calls.
Respond to customer comments
Additional UI changes include automated live captioning in five languages, engagement controls for teachers and students, and new mobile features designed to keep team members connected, wherever they are. Google said many of Meet's new improvements were "largely inspired" by customer and user feedback. The bottom navigation bar is also updated. Call codes, attachments, call lists, chat, and other features will be consolidated at the bottom, creating more screen space for additional participants. Last year, Google introduced low light mode for Meet on mobile. The feature uses AI to automatically adjust a participant's video to make it more viewable in a dark environment or to reduce glare if users have too much light coming through a sunny window. This light adjustment feature will be available on the web interface in the coming weeks. Users will also have access to “fun” video backgrounds: a classroom, a party, and a forest, with more coming soon. Ashenden said these new features show that Google is responding positively to customer feedback and thinking creatively about how to improve the Meet experience. However, she believes that there are still areas where improvements are needed. “For example, the way you make sure the presenter can present content while still being active in the meeting experience, as well as the friction and overlap between their chat and their Q&A capabilities,” she said. . “These are not necessarily areas where your competitors have solved the problem, as they are common challenges with meeting tools,” she noted. "If you want to catch up with Zoom and Microsoft Teams, it's important for Google to innovate and raise the bar in a much more definitive way."
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