Lo Min Ming, former UX designer intern at Google:

The reason why there are such differences in these Google apps is that the designers in each of these teams know that Android design is ugly. They all want to change the standard popup design. They want to change the icons. They want to tweak the style. Both the Currents and Google+ team clearly wanted a more flat look compared to the more 3D look of other apps.

I used to rant a lot about Google web services – Search vs Maps vs Gmail vs News, etc. But with the recent efforts to unify the look of these web services to use design language of Google+, they now look much better. More importantly, these web services have a more consistent feel to it.

Let’s hope that they do something across all their Android apps too.

Google Currents adds to interface inconsistencies across Google’s mobile apps