Introducing the new Google+

Re:Introducing the new Google+ by RyanZAG on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:11AM (#10586043)

It definitely looks better when viewed as a screenshot or in a graphic design presentation. Of course actual usability is far worse, but nobody cares about that. Only how shiny it is. The people making the decisions on which design to go for are given screenshot or mockup presentations in 5 minutes and asked to choose which design to go for. They will always go for the shiniest one, and you end up with stuff like this.

There's some comment about the low attention span we force on executives by making them take 1000s of decisions per day that they aren't even experts in and rewarding them for it in all this.

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Re:Introducing the new Google+ by 21echoes on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @03:32AM (#10586628)

... you honestly think Google has no analytics on whether or not design changes affect UX? And that they'd stick with a significantly worse-performing page?

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Re:Introducing the new Google+ by nissehulth on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @05:23AM (#10586937)

They will only have numbers for the people that are actually using Google+. The millions that prefer other social networks may have different views on the G+ usability.

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Re:Introducing the new Google+ by r00fus on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @01:36AM (#10586329)

Somewhat counterintuitive... I mean Google knows better than relying on stills for what is interactive content, right?

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Re:Introducing the new Google+ by tajen on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @02:24AM (#10586458)

I don't know, did they ever hire an Apple designer? Ah, no, they had a no-poach agreement. Perhaps they had to revert on poaching Pinterest designers, though.

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