Luke Wroblewski

Also if you're interested in the geeky parts of this redesign. We moved to a mobile first responsive solution. Before home page weight: 22,600 KB After: 327 KB And a much richer set of UI animations, transitions, & more. This is the same framework we launched on Google Photos earlier this year. details here: https://developers.google.com/web/showcase/case-study/googleplus

We're rolling out today on Web. In coming days on iOS & Android. Stay tuned!

The app is the "power-user" side of things. We have more reach with publishers in their apps/sites (2.5M embeds per day). But more engagement in the app (40/50 votes per user per day). We'd love to devote more attention to the app. Have a lot of stuff we've learned that we want to try out but these days, we're neck deep in supporting the platform.

Ryan, since we started mobile-first we focused a lot on making it very quick & easy to collect opinions. So we got a lot of opinions -very fast. Press started to pick on the results of these polls & write articles about them like: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/06/27/polar-after-289k-votes-66-are-in-favor-of-ios-7s-new-icons/?fromcat=apple We realized there was an opportunity...