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Gmail new/old design comparison

July 1, 2011 by Kimb Jones

Looks like Gmail is jumping on the recent Google design changes:

New Gmail header

Old Gmail header

About Time

These changes are actually pretty significant and its happening all over Google. And based on what I’ve read about how Google used to operate its design methods I find these changes both refreshing and fascinating, see:

I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.

Douglas Bowman on Leaving Google, March 2009

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Comments

  1. Jason says

    July 2, 2011 at 1:52 am

    It’s about time, overall the new design work looks decent. Keeping it consistent across the services makes sense.

    Have you used Google+ yet?

    • mkjones says

      July 2, 2011 at 9:32 am

      Hey Jason 🙂 thanks, I’m still not keen on the black bar, contrast is too different to the rest of the design. And the text isn’t bright enough.

      I’m staying away from + until it’s ready for live use, I don’t want to fall for a great product for google to yank it like they did with Wave/Buzz.

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