Macintosh designer linked to Google+ user interface

Macintosh designer linked to Google+ user interface
One of the crowning design elements in Google+ is "circles," an interface for grouping together users into different privacy sets. You can, for instance, make a circle for family, and another for co-workers. Google has included a tool for doing this efficiently just by having users drag and drop, with a person's icon dropping into place like a gumball to show that the addition was a success. Hertzfeld famously dropped out of graduate school at University of California at Berkeley to join Apple in the summer of 1979, later working on the Macintosh team alongside Bill Atkinson, Burrell Smith, Steve Wozniak, and (now Apple CEO) Steve Jobs. Hertzfeld specifically wrote some of the initial Mac system software including the user interface toolbox, window manager, menu manager, and control manager. After Apple, Hertzfeld went on to co-found Radius, General Magic, and Eazel, later starting up the site Folklore.org, and writing "Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac was Made."