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Gmail: Design breakdown?
Google is pushing a new "Email experience" [0], in which the compose window becomes a smallish rectangle near the edge of the screen, and every editing option is hidden inside menus. The rest of the screen is just an unusable background now.
How can anyone think this is better than the current design?
[0] Before - http://i.imgur.com/FvnkaWX.png
After - http://i.imgur.com/0mTa36W.png
- nsns 14y agoWorking links: before - http://i.imgur.com/FvnkaWX.png http://i.imgur.com/FvnkaWX.png after - http://i.imgur.com/0mTa36W.png http://i.imgur.com/0mTa36W.png
- hmahncke 14y agoOpen multiple compose/edit windows simultaneously visible without switching tabs; see new email while composing. Whether those are good goals or not is a question, but those are among the goals.
- generalseven 14y agoGood question, with so many complaints about the UX I wonder why we still even use it. In case you didn't know, https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ gives you the old interface back.
- saiko-chriskun 14y agorest of the screen unusable? huh? it's just as usuable as it is without the compose window up. I find it useful.