If one of the smaller guys had created this UI and had built H+ for example, they'd have been showered with praise. We've come to expect some kind of magic from Google. UI/ UX always has some trade offs, and I think the decisions taken are wise. I love the auto-hiding sidebar, and the plethora of options to respond add to the responsiveness of the app. They've rethought hashtags too. Quite a nice experience in my opinion.
New Google+ is beautiful?
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#62Someone should do a comedy video of them sitting in a car where every time you change your seating position all the controls re-arrange and change size.
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#63I find the two-column layout hard to deal with. I think I have figured out an algorithm for visually determining the chronological order of the posts, without having to read the timestamp in each post. But my algorithm requires considerable visual and intellectual effort. Is there an intuitive way to see the chronology of the posts? BTW, I'm not a huge fan of facebook's two-column layout either, but at least the arro…
Post order hasn't been reliably chronological in some time, FYI. They started messing around with it at least a year ago.
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#64The main problem I see with these types of layouts is that if you are displaying reverse chronological content, it needs to be in a single column. Items that have no bearing on when it was posted, i.e. Pintrest, can adapt just fine to this multi-column layout.
They haven't been reliably displayed in reverse chronological order for some time now. I noticed it being messed with at least a year ago.
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#65What is G+? They need a lot more then that to beat fb!
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#66I find the two-column layout hard to deal with. I think I have figured out an algorithm for visually determining the chronological order of the posts, without having to read the timestamp in each post. But my algorithm requires considerable visual and intellectual effort. Is there an intuitive way to see the chronology of the posts? BTW, I'm not a huge fan of facebook's two-column layout either, but at least the arro…
You can switch to single-column mode under the top banner "More" menu's "Stream Layout" option. Unfortunately, I think a lot of people that would like to use this feature are not aware of it (admittedly it's not the first place I looked).
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#67I prefer open source social networks. And decentralized with that, such as Diaspora.
The discussion was about design. Not about G+ being closed.
My point was that it's kind of not interesting to follow their design, when underlying idea isn't the best.
By the way, early G+ itself borrowed design from Diaspora, as well as the concept of circles.
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Disclaimer: I work for Google. For what it's worth, I felt the same way when I first dogfooded the new multi-column layout. I couldn't figure out how to read my stream. While reading a post, I kept getting distracted thinking about where I should focus my attention on next. It made scanning my stream more stressful and I was confident that I did not like it. This was before they added the option to switch to a single…
First off, I admit that I am hypersensitive to any form of bastardization of language. So please don't hate me for I'm going to say, I'm just a victim of my hypersensitivities. But: the word "stream" in the English language means "a steady flow or succession." Or, if you prefer the CS definition, it means "a sequence of data elements made available over time." When I'm looking at a set of boxes of different heights a…
It's surprising and bizarre to me how comments like this are common in the CS world. If you are okay with "stream" now being more than just a small river, why are you artificially drawing the line as to what exactly the term may refer to?
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#69Can anyone find the 27 actions? I find only one, add a school. the rest is just normal interwebs stuff. if you feel that every link is a must-click, even button a must-do, and every post a must-read (all contents), you have to rethink your web experience.
Personally I feel the images made me read the post instead of skip it altogether. I feel the white is indeed a bit much, luckily a lot of people add pictures to fill that up (pun intended). I dare to say that pictures are to a post, what icons are to your desktop. Try removing all icons from your desktop and just use textual shortcuts. That will make sure it is a pain to get in a glance what is there.
Lucky for people like the poster, google tends to make stuff configurable. As said before you can tune things (a bit) to your likings.
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