[chenster]

@google, check this: https://dribbble.com/shots/4020485-Inbox-Client/attachments/.... It's better than yours.

Never a fan of material design.. seriously, Google is NOT good at design. Period. I hoped, in this Gmail iteration, Google would finally take the plunge and kill the flat icons and minimalist design and once for all. It's quite the opposite unfortunately. It got flatter and uglier. All so plain and washed out, one doesn't know what he should look at first.

[megous]

I noticed InVision in the e-mail. That's the worst design of an app I had to use so far. Icons everywhere without explanation (you have to hover), a lot of stuff has extremely annoying gray (like text in #ddd, so you see it on screen that there's something there, but can't read it)

Why designers don't use background to highlight active items, while keeping text/icons high contrast, instead of making everything unreadable, and using black color to barely highlight what's focussed, is beyond me.

It's all extremely gimicky, especially all those useless animations of huge areas of the page.

I never understood what it's for, aside from commenting on screens - and it does shitty job at that too - you start typing a comment but you can't move the fucking comment box around so that it doesn't cover the part you're commenting - so you close the comment box, to see and reopen and your unfinished comment is gone. Instead of focussing on important stuff like this, they create shitty gimmicks.

It's almost satirical how it markets itself compared to how bad it is.

And whatever this is it certainly seems inspired by InVision.

[andrewguenther]

That design is...awful. Tons of wasted space, prominent screen real estate given to interactions the user will never engage and less than 50% of the screen is given to the content I am there to see?

> one doesn't know what he should look at first.

Pot, meet kettle.

[chenster]

So what I heard is that people would just prefer something like the Thunderbird, basic but functional - https://addons.cdn.mozilla.net/user-media/previews/full/152/... and you don't care if it's ugly. However, You can't just think like gmail are only used by engineers who designed it. Most of the users are not.

[Jyaif]

> https://dribbble.com/shots/4020485-Inbox-Client/attachments/...

Font and icon color is too dark. Needs more whitespace too.

[chenster]

YOU SERIOUS? How about more cowbell?

[pmlnr]

There's nothing stopping you from running that and connecting it to Gmail via IMAP. Go ahead, make it a service, let people have a choice.

[papa_bear]

Looks like I’d have to do a ton of scrolling to see the amount of info that the old gmail shows me. Everything is too spaced out for me ;(

[Jabbles]

Google is providing three new layouts to choose from, including a default view that highlights attachments like documents and photos, a comfortable view that doesn’t highlight attachments, and a compact view that increases the amount of messages you can see on a single page. The compact view is the most similar to the existing Gmail design, allowing existing users to keep a similar layout.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/12/17227974/google-gmail-des...

[roberttod]

This is such a departure from the industry norm, trying to figure out what works best and focusing on that configuration. It looks like Google already struggle keeping the product maintained and nice-to-use, I imagine these options make it a lot more difficult.

[elvinyung]

Looks like an Atlassian product :p