Gooogle Ads original campaigns user interface

Gooogle Ads campaigns page with browser extension Usability Booster

Google Ads browser extension Usability Booster

Are you also annoyed by having to repeatedly click away the same Google Ads recommendations one by one?

Just click on this button and all Google Ads recommendations will be rejected one after the other with “I'll do that later.”

Colors can help avoid mistakes and visually assign numbers in columns to KPIs

Gooogle Ads original add keywords user interface

Gooogle Ads add keywords page with browser extension Usability Booster

Usability Booster changes the layout to how it should be

Gooogle Ads original performance max asset group edit user interface

Google Ads performance max asset group edit page with browser extension Usability Booster

Options for improving the Google Ads user interface

Everyone has different preferences. For some, design is more important, for others it's usability. Some find colors distracting, others find them helpful. That's why you can enable and disable the various options for changing the Google Ads interface individually (see screenshot above).
TIP: Enable and disable options while the configuration menu is open. You will then immediately see in the background what effect an option has on this page.
The link to the menu is displayed when you hover your mouse over the new Usability Booster icon at the top next to the search field.

Recommendations with button I will do everything later
Are you also annoyed by having to click away the same recommendations over and over again because they don't make sense, would be counterproductive, or the customer simply doesn't give permission for them? One click on the button and all recommendations will be rejected with the setting "I'll do this later".
Is there anyone who hasn't missed this button yet? :-)
Display notifications less intrusively
- Google displays some messages at the top of a box above the page content.
  However, these messages partially cover the selection boxes for campaigns and ad groups. Depending on the screen size, activating this option moves this box so that it is less – and on wide screens, it is no longer – a distraction.
- Recommendations for Google Ads are also sometimes displayed to the right of charts. These recommendations are not completely removed, but compressed to a few pixels wide and highlighted with a red background so that you can see that there is a recommendation (see screenshot above). To view the recommendation, simply hover your mouse over the red area.
Colored tables with key figures
A different background color is used depending on the column, such as CPC, clicks, costs/conversions. This allows you to see immediately – without looking at the column header – what the cell content is.
More compact layout with less white space and less scrolling
This option is about putting more content – especially more table rows – on the screen. This setting is also a matter of taste :-)
Display elements wider so that text in fields etc. is less likely to be cut off
I find it completely incomprehensible why Google makes the boxes for editing ads or Performance Max Assets so narrow that the content of the input fields is often cut off (see screenshot above). I'm sure none of the developers of the Google Ads interface have to work with it, otherwise it would look different! But with the Usability Booster, I try to eliminate the biggest layout sins that often hinder productivity.
Font for key figures
I find the numbers in the tables difficult to read.
Here you can enter your favorite font if you are also unhappy with the Google font. Arial, Verdana, monospace ...
My current setting: JetBrains Mono SemiBold (Download)
But maybe only programmers are happy with monospace fonts :-)

Improve left menu
In my opinion, this is one of the best features of the Usability Booster. How many times a day do you click on menu items to make the submenu items visible? It's especially annoying when the "Asset" menu only has one submenu item called "Asset." And once you've expanded all the menu items, you have to scroll to see the lower menu items :-(
This option has two functions:
- All menus are expanded automatically.
- The height of the menu adapts to the browser height so that all menu items are visible without having to scroll. The display is only as compact as in the screenshot above on small screens.
  Currently, pale gray lines separate the menu items from each other. Would you prefer with or without the dividing lines?
Buttons look like buttons, links look like links, and menu tabs look like menu tabs
Designer or pragmatist? I studied civil engineering and believe that "form follows function":-)
In some cases, text appears in the same place in the Google Ads interface, sometimes as plain text and sometimes as a link. A link is a link if it behaves like a link and is recognizable as a link. Otherwise, they are Easter egg links and, in my opinion, a design sin. In my opinion, menu tabs should also be recognizable. Here's what it looks like with and without the option enabled:
Various adjustments
- Label names are no longer truncated after a few characters. In over 20 years of Google Ads optimization, I have of course never accidentally entered excluding keywords instead of keywords in a customer account :-)
- Some buttons have been moved to the left. On wide screens, for example, the information text is now on the far left and the buttons are on the far right, outside the field of view.
Experimental
Currently, some status messages in tables are no longer wrapped to x lines when the column is too narrow (normal case). With this option, if you have also activated the more compact layout, only as much of the message is displayed as the column width allows. If you move the mouse over the message, everything is displayed. This often allows many more table rows to fit on one screen.

Manche Anpassungen sind nur auf größeren Monitoren aktiv, um Darstellungsfehler zu vermeiden.

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Important

Google Ads is a living system! Google is constantly making changes that are rolled out gradually. The changes may be visible or may only affect the HTML code and certain browsers and operating systems.
The Usability Booster is continuously adapted to ensure it runs on all systems.

Please let us know if you encounter any problems so that they can be resolved quickly. service@usability-booster.com

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Contact

Information about updates:
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Please send questions, feedback, feature requests, and bug reports to: service@usability-booster.com

Guaranteed no data transfer

The browser extension only requires two permissions:

To make changes to websites with the URL https://ads.google.com/....
To permanently save your selected options in the browser.

The Usability Booster browser extension only improves the Google Ads web interface. The browser extension does not request any permissions for URLs other than https://ads.google.com/... as NO data is read from external sources and no data is sent anywhere.
Browser extensions are checked by Firefox/Mozilla and Chrome/Google before publication to ensure that extensions do not send data without requesting permission from the user.
In addition to our guarantee that our browser extension does not read or send any data from Google Ads, Firefox/Mozilla and Chrome/Google also check our Usability Booster browser extension. If the Usability Booster is extended to other websites such as Merchant Center, you will receive a message in your browser and must explicitly agree to the newly requested permissions.

Terms of Use

Usability Booster modifies the content of the Google Ads interface and adds features such as automatically clicking on all recommendations with the “I'll do this later” option. Google may make changes to Google Ads at any time that may cause some or all of the features of our browser extension to no longer function properly. Furthermore, the extension may refer to products and services, in particular Google Ads scripts that we develop.

The use of our browser extensions is at your own risk. Liability for damages caused by simple negligence is excluded to the extent permitted by law. Liability for intent, gross negligence, or breach of essential obligations remains unaffected.

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