I loved the new design. Much less clutter. A service I use every waking moment need not label everything. I like the direction of Google's design efforts.
The Google+ design will continue to evolve, I'm sure (it is not quite there yet).
How to cope with the Gmail redesign
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Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign
#42Its a constant wonder how Google and other large companies can't actually realise that their design departments are not doing a great job. You'd think that Apple's successes might actually make them realise that great interfaces (especially if they can outdo the competition) are hugely valuable. Some things about the new design are defensible, however others are definitely not. My particular pet hate is that all the…
>large companies can't actually realise that their design departments are not doing a great job
There are obviously a lot of unhappy users with legitimate gripes. But Google would probably be looking at the growth of Gmail to validate what ever the design department is doing. That growth is pretty impressive.
Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign
#43Another trick I found is to go into Labs and enable the one that moves the in-browser chat box to the right side of the inbox. It's not as nice as before where it just stacked on the left side, but with the new design it wanted to show me one of the chat box or utility at-a-glance views like my Calendar, but not both. Now I get both again, at the inexpensive cost of horizontal screen estate.
Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign
#44You can talk IMAP/POP and SMTP, and you get to control your own user interface, or you can talk HTTP, HTML, and JS and abdicate control to someone else. I fell into that trap myself. I was a heavy user of Gmail for about four years, and when they started changing things and told me "only 0.07% of users use that feature we just removed", it was too late. This mayhem ruined "the cloud" for me ... and I used to help run…
What UI do you use? I probably going to use newest Thunderbird when I leave gmail.
Postbox (http://www.postbox-inc.com) is pretty solid.
Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign
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#46Their spam/filtering has gone down hill. It does a great job with the spam. Unfortunately, several people I communicate with a few times a day, half of their stuff goes straight to the trash and I don't see it. If I login to webmail I can see they have both an Inbox and Trash label on them but my phone and mail client to register the new mail and it doesn't show in the Inbox. I just want it to pick one.
Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign
#47I know I was probably 1 of 10 people that actually used (and liked!) the Terminal theme with all green monospaced text... sadly that is now gone, and Terminal theme is now just a lame white on black with variable-width font. bummer :(
Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign
#48I'd also add a tip to check out the Minimalist Suite http://minimalistsuite.com - It's Chrome extension for Gmail as well as other Google properties that allows you to customize the UI and remove of things you don't use. There are many that do this but this is the best IMHO.
Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign
#49I know I was probably 1 of 10 people that actually used (and liked!) the Terminal theme with all green monospaced text... sadly that is now gone, and Terminal theme is now just a lame white on black with variable-width font. bummer :(
Yep. Only a blinking shell prompt remains, under "Google" (top left)
Re: How to cope with the Gmail redesign
#50The android theme is quite good, better than the old one imo.
Otherwise, I love the text label.