Over the past two weeks I’ve observed two minor changes to the Gmail web app UI, but I have yet to see any sort of announcement on the Google Mobile Blog. It might be that these changes are so simple that they aren’t deemed worthy of a post on the Google site, but one of them is a pretty significant layout change.
The first difference is almost insignificant. Instead of showing a broad bar notification after sending a message, all that we see now is a yellow bar on the top-right corner of the screen, which lingers for a few seconds unless dismissed by a tap of your finger.
The second change has to do with the location of the buttons on the compose and reply screens. Send and Save used to be on the top-left side, but they’re now on the top-right, with the Back and Discard buttons now occupying the top-left. This is definitely a strange little change, since frequent Gmail users (who have likely memorized the positions of these buttons) will now hit Back when they mean to Send an e-mail.
The last change is a total guess, but I also think the interface has gotten a little faster lately — especially when it comes to refreshing the inbox. Did anybody notice or have thoughts on any of these changes?
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