+me
I am a fan of Google+. At this point the audience is small and popular opinion seems to indicate it's a ghost town. For me personally though, the two groups of people I most often associate with and care to follow in social media (tech and photography) are actually the two groups of people that have largely embraced Google+. For the last 3 years I have worked closely with Kelby Media Group and other big names in photography to make iOS apps, including my most recent app tailor made for the Google+ for Photographer's Conference in San Francisco on May 22nd.
While making this app, in partnership with Kelby Media Group, I created a Google+ SDK that connects to Google+ to power profiles, photo albums, news feeds, and more. The app is brilliant and works extremely well given the limited API Google offers for Google+.
User Experience
I am a huge fan of user experience—just read my books and you'll get an idea for how important I think user experience is when it comes to mobile apps. To me, user experience not only makes or breaks an app, but also makes or breaks the impression of the service that app is representing.
I love Google+, but their mobile app is lacking. I'm not talking about a feature set, you can have a limited feature set and still have an outstanding user experience. No amount of features can make up for an app that doesn't feel like it belongs. As an iOS designer/developer, there are a lot of trouble spots in the official Google+ app that break the user experience for me.
That is why over the last 5-6 weeks I have continued working with Kelby Media Group (a partner in this venture) to create a Google+ app that provides the best possible service and user experience to iOS users—for both the iPhone and iPad.
Stay tuned for more information about +me.
