Re:Leaked Gmail redesign looks a lot like Facebook’s Message...
by joshma on Friday October 21, 2011 @04:29AM
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If you've seen the other videos, they seemed to have heard users' concerns. There's a dropdown to control density, and on top of that density is automatically adjusted based on windows size. So shrinking a window naturally causes the UI to collapse, complete with subtle animations as it does so.
Re:Leaked Gmail redesign looks a lot like Facebook’s Message...
by TruthElixirX on Friday October 21, 2011 @02:31AM
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Yeah, the huge sparse white space is killing me. I don't have a lot of money so I am rocking a 22" screen at 1680 x 1050. I try to squeeze every last bit of screen real estate out of it.
Hopefully someone will make a Firefox plugin to make it look like the old style.
It does look a lot more like G+, latest G-Doc and so on, so it feels like a natural evolution of it, but I don't like that suddenly everything became so big and sparse. I want to manage my emails and last time I checked I had a buttload of them, don't need something that makes me scroll x3 more than I already have now... Sure it looks prettier but is it more usable? I wouldn't bet on that.
Though I guess it's going to be the same as any redesign people don't like - lots of complaints and everyone will forget about it sooner rather than later.....