As more time goes by, the people at Google+ will introduce more and more features. The last few weeks have seen the games tab, starting a hangout directly from youtube (although I personally haven’t seen that button around yet) and the reshare function on its android app. Possibly, it could at some time feature designs, just like a wallpaper on a smartphone or desktop. This already exists in various Google instances like the classisc homepage, GMail, and the Chrome browser.
Your “edit profile” tab could give you the option of choosing a Google design, an authored one by the usual artists (see the “Designs” section at the bottom of the Chrome web store) or even one of your own choosing.
Google has been quick to feature the 4-5 photo-art-wall thing that was introduced to facebook a while ago.
This is just our guessing, and many people could opt to keep the minimalistic design it has now.
The next thing would definitely be brands on G+, with an open API coming at the same time or little later. The possibility to make G+ corporate friendly doesn’t necessarily mean an API, but the roof would be off with the latter, since this particular network is the darling of techies at this moment, and many of those would surely unleash the programming skills.
The other things we would like to see are the option to sort your sparks on the stream tab and the stream itself to be able to default to a certain circle’s posts. On the mobile end, there still are no sparks at all, but your stream may default to a certain circle – the one you left it on the last time checking. Also, the handling with +users could be more sophisticated here, as you are not able to put a user’s name in a comment.
Ah, and if you would like to see an “nearby” stream just like on the mobile version, head to this destination - https://m.google.com/app/plus .
