SxDSalon: A group blog on social interaction design

The interest graph needs design love

In order to make content filtering and interest graph gardening usable and useful for most people, Google will need to give it the same design love it gave Circles. The playful gestures of encircling are intended to make it feel natural and fun to add people to circles, and to move people among circles as things change, thus describing and updating one’s social graph. What many people are noticing as missing in Google+, though, is the ability to communicate and consume according to topic...