Is Google murdering Google+ with poor UI design?

Google is testing a new version of Google+, saying it wants to make the service better to use. The company also updated its iOS and Android apps with new versions designed (I think) to demonstrate its skills for poor user interface design.

Poor design

Various reports called it “lean, mean and completely redesigned,” and Google itself claimed it had developed a “mobile-first” experience. You’d think from listening to Google that it had succeeded in making it even easier to run communities.

"There were two features they kept coming back to: Communities, which now average 1.2 million new joins per day, and Collections, which launched just five months ago and is growing even faster,” said Eddie Kessler, Director of Streams, Google. “Whether it’s the Nonfiction Addiction Community, where people can be found discussing the best in Crime or Travel storytelling, or the Watch Project Collection, where more than 40,000 people are following an antique watch hobbyist, these are the places on Google+ where people around the world are spending their time discovering and sharing things they love.

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