The swift death of Google’s cupcake feature is a valuable lesson in UX design

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by Sindy Cator on October 17, 2017 at 4:50 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Google

Earlier today, Google rolled out a new feature in Maps for iPhone users in the US, which counted the calories burned when you walked to a certain place and depicted that in equivalent mini cupcakes. It was quickly panned by many a Twitter user and has already been killed off – that’s perhaps one of the quickest deaths of a feature in a mobile app we’ve seen in recent times. ty for shaming me for my mini cupcake consumption google maps!!!! pic.twitter.com/nYwNHMJFqa — Khushb👻👻 Shah (@KhushAndOJ) October 16, 2017 Users who disliked the feature noted that it could trigger people…