aren't they dropping google+? nobody uses that crap
Introducing the new Google+
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Re: Introducing the new Google+
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I think the biggest issue is the design. The card layout is generally big no-no in design community. It presents too many choices for the reader for where to focus. Users don't like to make choices because it represents friction in consumption. The FB layout is one item at a time with small column so eyes doesn't have to scan right to left too much. If user doesn't like item you just move on. The ranking of posts is…
> The card layout is generally big no-no in design community. Pinterest.
That's different. You're supposed to peruse like a catalogue.
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#203Charise Strandberg via Google+ Daniel Brinneman shared this via Google+ Antonio Valdés via Google+ I see Google+'s commenting is still drowned out by sharing notifications. Google, there's a reason everyone turned off trackbacks ten years ago. It's just noise for anyone reading that page to filter out.
Instagram makes the same mistake exacerbated on popular/celebrity posts. You'll have a food photo shared by a chef, followed by loads of these:
person1: @theirfriend person2: @afriend person3: @friendname you'd like this ... and so on forever
If someone's referring something to someone, leave me out of it. That's not a comment to the OP nor to the masses. It's just cruft. You can allude to it "504 people shared this", but the detail is unnecessary.
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The new reddit mobile page has the same problem. On the old http://i.reddit.com I usually get 1-3 more links per page than on the new http://m.reddit.com Who actually thinks that all that padding and those stupid navbars are a good idea? On mobile my screen estate is very valuable and I don't want to waste it on unnecessary things.
Designers from San Francisco, that's who. Current design trends favor "negative space", so text has to be spaced widely, with huge margins and hairsbreadth-thin fonts.
Negative space is always useful. Simply spacing shit out to create low information density isn't the same thing. Adding a bunch of unnecessary dividers (cards and shadows) are definitely not the same thing as negative space.
Negative space would be allowing the space between items to create a division instead of the borders and shadows.
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#205When is Google going to drop the dingy grey as a background color? It's so gross.
Google had things figured out with its crisp white aesthetic. Superfluous cards and shadows (thanks Material Design) has borked design at Google.
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#206The right thing to do with Google+ is to drop it. Google should not aspire to build social products: they are an algorithm company. Their attempts to interact with humans historically have failed: see adsence publishers, support of Nexus phones, etc.
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#207I'm not entirely sure what Google+ is anymore. Who is the target audience?
> Who is the target audience?
Ingress players, mostly. I think some of the largest and most active communities on the site deal with the game, and given how the game is stagnant and (at least in my region) people are losing interest, that's telling about G+ itself.
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Since the web has gone into distributed application / magazine, density has dropped. http://imgur.com/MRnd81J http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ http://justinjackson.ca/words.html TBC
Please tell me you are kidding with that first image. Seriously. Not a single website actually looks like that.
To be honest I have a 1024x768 12" laptop, believe me that image is far too close to reality far too often.
Re: Introducing the new Google+
#209No, please just make it stop.
Re: Introducing the new Google+
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It's not just a Google thing. Recently there was a HN thread on devmag.io -- they have the same problem. I measured it: in the same space HN gives me 18 stories, Devmag.io gives me barely 2. Unfortunately, I think Google people know and they just don't care. They don't want people who know what RSS is, people who care about information density; they are going after the Pinterest crowd, the sort of people who read Cos…
The new reddit mobile page has the same problem. On the old http://i.reddit.com I usually get 1-3 more links per page than on the new http://m.reddit.com Who actually thinks that all that padding and those stupid navbars are a good idea? On mobile my screen estate is very valuable and I don't want to waste it on unnecessary things.
I don't like the new http://m.reddit.com/
Try this my redesign reddit. http://reddit.premii.com/ I hope reddit does something like this, and let user configure layout for each subreddit.