Get Ready For Gmail’s New Look – A Sneak Preview With Google+ UI

Get Ready For Gmail’s New Look – A Sneak Preview With Google+ UI

Google is on fire now days! With the launch of Google+, it takes us to the new way of social media. Also google had redesigned the google calendar and now its time for Gmail to redesigned his look. Before few months back Google Introduces Google Instant For Faster Searches and now with turn gmail with smarter view.

Google has released a preview of what the real new Gmail will look like, including themes that you can test out today. Google gave users a sneak peek of its “Preview” and “Preview (Dense)” themes.

It looks like Google is running with the UI from Google+ and incorporating it into Gmail as well. Gmail adopted the Google+ minimalist, orange and gray aesthetic, though it’s not an identical aesthetic — the buttons for instance are larger.

The new Gmail has a cleaner, more refined look. The clean look is more spread out than the classic Gmail interface, basking in white space that makes it easier to read.

According to Google’s official Gmail Blog,

The idea was to “strip out unnecessary clutter and make Gmail as beautiful as it is powerful.” It’s all part of Google’s drive for a better experience that it calls “more focused, elastic and effortless” across each of its products.

The Preview theme, which spreads information out over more space and so must be the theme designed for larger screens, spreads things out a little too much. The eye doesn’t naturally scan over emails in the inbox because the whitespace between each message is a little too big for information that is provided in only one-line increments. The spacing works for Google+ because the items are generally a paragraph or more in length.

Google’s calling these two preview themes “a sort of sneak peek” because it plans to make this design a permanent part of Gmail’s new interface.

How To Get New Look of Gmail?

Want to have new interface updates in your Gmail and don’t know how to get that.  Don’t worry i will show you the simple and easiest steps to get new look in your Gmail.

1. First, sign in to Gmail and head to Mail settings.
2. Next, go to the “Themes” tab.
3. You’ll see a two new themes at bottom end of all themes, “Preview” and “Preview (dense).”
4. Select one, and your inbox will be instantly graced with a cleaner, more refined look.

That’s it. You can enjoy it now.

Here’s what one of the new themes currently looks like:
gmail's new look

Note: I have marked some mails with orange strips.

New Look In Conversation View:

gmail's new look in conversation view

Click the images above to see larger versions.

You can find lot many good things in new look, but there are some rough edges as well. Some lab futures may look like a stranger in new look. Google is planning to fix those issues and then roll out the new gmail look.

It’s unclear when the new Gmail interface will take over, but until then, you can start using it with this trick.

If you don’t like either of these themes, all the other themes are still there, or you can simply stick with what you have now. I think this is a big improvement, making Gmail easier to read and more efficient to use.

What You Think? Please share your experience regarding this new look.

If you want to give your feedback regarding these new look you can directly send your thoughts.

4 Comments

  1. After read this post, I try new look for my Gmail and its really looking nice.

  2. i don’t like the new theme. the font color is too light gray, very hard to read.

  3. The new look is horrible, very hard to read. It is change for no purpose. Why can’t users choose, what works best for them?

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