Yesterday, Google announced the biggest change to its branding in 17 years, and that involves fresh new logos and buttons for Google+, too.
Google's new look reflects where the company is at today, and looks towards the future. Google started with Search on the desktop, now there are a wide variety of products that are accessible from other devices too, such as smartphones, tablets, watches and even cars. The new branding has been designed so it is easy to identify across the many different display sizes we use in our everyday lives, and the fresh logo transforms into dots (each one representing a colour took from Google's palette) to help you interact with its products.
But we're here to talk about Google+, which has been given a new logo and +1 button design. Obviously, there's nothing radically different other than the move to a sans serif typeface and slighter brighter colours. I'm just happy that at least something fresh is rolling out to Google+ on the web... As for the mobile apps, expect to see updates rolling out soon with at least the new icon.
Hopefully we'll see more drastic changes to the desktop site soon as it is well overdue a makeover, but we could still be waiting a while yet.
You can read more about Google's new branding updates on the official blog.
