Coming Soon – The New Google +1 Button

The Google+ Developers group announced today that the next update to the +1 button is strictly a UI change, with no functionality differences. I like the look of the clicked button, after you have activated it by using the plus one functionality.

However, the +1 button itself, not clicked, seems a little too camouflaged to me. It blends in with the surrounding area and doesn’t yell “click me!” like a good “call to action” button should. We talk a lot about the difference between what good design looks like and good design that actually gets user interaction, so I’m sure the good folks developing the Google+ button have tested the new design and found that the new design outperforms the old. They wouldn’t just change things to keep changing things, would they?

What do you think? Take a look at the preview version of the +1 button above as it appears on Google Plus? What do you think?

Here is how the preview version of the button appears on my site. If you don’t see this version of the button at the top of the page, you can join the Google+ Platform Review Group. Lots of cool stuff going on there.

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