<story><title>Kevin Fox on recent Google UX changes: from strange-to-me to just-plain-crazy</title><url>https://plus.google.com/117599103108596130864/posts/47yZLnxcnhv</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>citricsquid</author><text>&amp;#62; First up is the &apos;new tab&apos; chicklet in the Chrome tab bar. Somewhere around Chrome 16 the &apos;+&apos; disappeared from it, leaving a little ghost of a button that, to my mind, wouldn&apos;t be recognized for what it was by a user who hadn&apos;t already formed their mental model on earlier versions of Chrome.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d noticed this and it was very irritating! I assumed it was a bug and for whatever reason the image was missing, not that they had intentionally removed it. That&apos;s nonsensical to me, without the + being there it indicates... nothing. His point is exactly right.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kevin Fox on recent Google UX changes: from strange-to-me to just-plain-crazy</title><url>https://plus.google.com/117599103108596130864/posts/47yZLnxcnhv</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guynamedloren</author><text>I&apos;m most confused about Google&apos;s decision to remove the links from the logos. This is a convention engrained in the interwebs and I can&apos;t come up with a single reason why they would change it.  Sure maybe inexperienced users wouldn&apos;t know the functionality exists, but when has that ever been a reason to remove a feature?&lt;p&gt;I think there was a HN discussion about this recently, but I missed it. Anybody know why they made this decision?</text></comment>