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Circles, Huddles, Hangouts: Those all seem pretty different from Facebook to me. The only part of + that seems similar to Facebook is the interface of streams
by theBobMcCormick 15y ago
Circles, Huddles, Hangouts: Those all seem pretty different from Facebook to me. The only part of + that seems similar to Facebook is the interface of streams (which admittedly, is very similar.)
- 51Cards 15y agoI tend to think that the similarity of 'Streams' is mainly due to the fact that that is what a social information feed looks like. It's kinda of like saying "Those word processors all copying each other with their large text areas and blinking cursors and menus" That's just because that is what works for a word processor, as the 'Stream' feed works for social updates. Just my thoughts anyhow.
- rfugger 15y agoI'm not sure this was obvious until Friendfeed became so popular that Facebook acquired and integrated them into their redesign in 2009. It seems like a pretty recent innovation to me.
- 51Cards 15y agoThe current 'mature' design may have been somewhat recent but that's the general distillation process of software evolution. I think in general all successful software products of similar intent migrate towards a fairly common UI layout which works best for interacting with that type of data. Not too often we see paradigm shifts in software UI's for established tasks.