The huge highlighted button seems to be a common usability issue with many of Google's new designs. They seem to confuse "new user" with "regular user". Case

The huge highlighted button seems to be a common usability issue with many of Google's new designs. They seem to confuse "new user" with "regular user". Case in point being the new groups design. Huge buttons to create a new group, an action that happens very infrequently for me. Plus a huge splash screen with product information (similar to the Blogger blog in the reading list) which as a regular user, I just don't care.