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I thought their old UI was so much better because you can find everything right when you log in. Now you actually have to play detective and click on stuff. and remember where things are so that you could click there next time.

Doesn't anyone out there think so too?

I had a discussion with a friend who used to work at Google today. We both arrived at the conclusion that Google as a company can't truly make a social product because the people who work there aren't social themselves. (Of course, I am stereotyping and there are outliers in my said assumptions.) We both thought that Google as a company is not built for [1] design, [2] social apps because, as a company, it values opinions coming from the technical, left-brained enginees than right-brained individuals and even institutes a hiring process that picks prospective applicants based on algorithms.

While I believe that technical people are the true innovators of companies in the early stage - and this is exactly what helped Google succeed. At the size that Google is now, it can't rely on a group of employees who are, in many ways, exactly alike. A company at the current size of Google needs diverse thinking to truly innovate and produce social apps.

In order to make a social product, you have to be living it. There are a million of design decisions that goes into making an internet product and, without putting your heart and soul into it, the product is not likely to succeed.