Somehow I wasn't subscribed to the Google Scholar blog already, and missed last week's announcement that they'd made some tweaks to the interface of Google Scholar. Today though I was presented with a big link under the search box to the post on their blog touting Better ways of getting around. I've gotta say I found their screenshot pretty confusing. In a nutshell, they've moved things like Alerts and Metrics to the hamburger menu which appears to the left of the words "Google Scholar" on all the results pages.
Looks nice!