Re:What happened, Gmail?
by rangewookie on Sunday April 29, 2018 @06:07AM
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I created an account to comment on the good experience I was having with the update.
I did a side-by-side comparison of the old UI and the new UI and I've changed my stance. The old one is a better "email" UI, but google is trying to mature the email experience.
A big problem here is that email showing it's age. Google is eager to hide less common tools behind menus. They want to delete all of the old "manual" buttons/tools so their smart filters can take over. It wont work. The truth is everyone likes email because it's fairly consistent, but we're forever trapped in 90's tech.
Instant messengers have transformed the way that we communicate, but email hasn't caught up. Maybe... it shouldn't.
I did a side-by-side comparison of the old UI and the new UI and I've changed my stance. The old one is a better "email" UI, but google is trying to mature the email experience.
A big problem here is that email showing it's age. Google is eager to hide less common tools behind menus. They want to delete all of the old "manual" buttons/tools so their smart filters can take over. It wont work. The truth is everyone likes email because it's fairly consistent, but we're forever trapped in 90's tech.
Instant messengers have transformed the way that we communicate, but email hasn't caught up. Maybe... it shouldn't.