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It doesn't look too bad, but it suffers from the same problem as all of these - there just isn't enough CONTRAST! Light grey buttons and text on a white background makes the eyes strain, and like in Gmail (and all the others for that matter, but _especially_ in Gmail when messages are displayed) there just isn't enough differentiation between the UI and the content.
The excessive whitespace goes without saying, but I really think the contrast issue needs to be getting flagged up more.
Also, a consistency thing - why on Maps, Plus and Gmail do the logos in the top left have the name of the service, while in Calendar, Docs and News the logo is just 'Google'? And of those, why does Calendar's have a white glow behind it, while none of the others do? There are other inconsistencies too - the scrollbars, the case of the letters in the Search The Web buttons, the style of the buttons (red text in News' 'Add a section'?)... in fact the longer I look at it, the more I realise that almost _none_ of the elements shared between the services are actually consistent, which I thought was the whole idea of the redesign? I far preferred the old look, but if they're going to unify them in a new way they could at least make it... unified!
Just my two pennies :)
Aug 5, 2011, 3:14:22 AM
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