So why the new Google fade-in feature is wasting my time
Today, Google introduced a minor new feature, where logo, search field and buttons are displayed as default, but other elements are hidden - until you move your mouse. Why is this bad? It's simple:
Before I move my mouse, I start looking where the link is I want to click, not the other way around. So, now every time I want to click a link on the top navigation, I need to move my mouse (read: perform a little mouse gesture) to see what I want to click. No matter that the fade-in is pretty quick, it still wastes my time.