I've very recently moved away from GMail for various reasons, but part of the transition was using their web panel to tidy up some things. Wow, I agree with yo

I've very recently moved away from GMail for various reasons, but part of the transition was using their web panel to tidy up some things. Wow, I agree with you that it's visually worsened. I'm shocked at how much harder it is to visually parse information in there. It's not harder to use overall per se (from what I remember) but the number of visual indicators defining what's clickable or a message in a thread or a sliding panels hiding tags or pop-up reply panels that are just harder to work out is very surprising. I actually stumbled on an interesting piece today discussing this exact point, I forget where I saw it[0]. I admit to using desktop/clients for virtually all email stuff so going back into the web panel was a surprise to say the least. [0] http://www.nngroup.com/articles/clickable-elements/ http://www.nngroup.com/articles/clickable-elements/