Product Lessons We Can Learn From Google+

May 23, 2014

design / google / product design / user experience

I’ve long been a critic of Google+ as a product, especially from a user experience design perspective. I don’t think Google did the hard work of figuring out the problems users had with social networking, but instead tried to figure out its own problems and build a product out of that. I still believe this, and it’s rather validating to see one of the folks who worked on the original product echo some of what I said three years ago.