Google’s New “Batshit Crazy” UX ⇥

Dustin Curtis, quoting ex-Google designer Kevin Fox:

The new Gmail and Google+ ‘clicking on the logo does nothing’ behavior seems just absurd. […] As long as there is a property logo on your page, clicking on that logo should take you to the top level of that property

He compares this odd behaviour to Twitter’s December redesign:

[A] tweet’s timestamp is no longer a link to that tweet’s page. Instead, clicking the date contracts the mini-information expansion. There is now a dedicated “details” link which is camouflaged in color, size, and location, as metadata.

This is something that I also pointed out when Twitter rolled out this redesign. The date is always assumed to be a permalink, at least in internet parlance, and Twitter breaks that convention for no good reason.