Google's company wide redesign has claimed another 'victim,' Google News is now sporting the new Google+ inspired looks. The layout is pretty much the same, just the graphical elements have been altered.
That said, the new
Google News looks pretty good, to be expected since it borrows all of the elements we've seen across several Google products already.
However, it seems that the standardization of Google design doesn't come without its pitfalls. For example, Google has started using a blue button with a magnifying glass to signify search.
This works on the main search page, where the button is obviously used to start a new Google search.
On Google News, it's used to start a new 'news search' and there is a separate "Search the Web" button as well.
The change is rather unintuitive, it's great that Google wants to have a consistent design, but not all products are the same so perhaps usability should win over looks, as has always been the case at the company.
Other than that though, everything else should be fairly familiar by now, since the new design has been showing up on several other Google products, including the main search site.
When Google+ was revealed, Google announced it would revamp all of its products to follow a common design previewed in Google+ and on the search site.
From the get go, Google Maps got the new look, later Calendar and smaller products, such as Google Help, got the revamp as well.
More recently, even huge products like YouTube are getting a Google+ inspired refresh, albeit in test form. But if Google is prepared to give YouTube a fresh coat of paint, not that it didn't need one, you can be sure that everything else, including complex applications like Google Docs will eventually be included.
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