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Jeez it is a smack in the face to scroll down and see the iOS Mail app after the beautiful Gmail app.


What is beautiful about the Gmail app? All the grey? I'm all for clean design but I don't exactly see how it's cleaner or nicer than Mail.app.


I use my nexus and the constant grey puts me off. Very little contrast, very little distinction between what is UI and what is scaffolding. If you're going to do a flat design, the elements have to separate themselves from one another -- things have to be distinct. This is a great example of a flat email interface with basically the same layout as Google's client: http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail/ everything being #cecece and shifted one direction or the other isn't.


Yeah, overall the interactions and UI are really great. It's a shame the mail rendering isn't quite there.


Yeah, I can't believe they messed that up that badly, the zoomed in screenshot screams FIXME.




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