This is the new Gmail design
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Those "trusted partners" better include trying things out with the elderly, and people who need ARIA. And since by default these people are always forgotten, the fact that the design team isn't boasting about thinking about them has me very, very worried already.
Pak1G summarised this perfectly five years ago in a HN comment on the Gmail redesign back then.
> I look at UI changes in a totally different way now. My [mom] saw me come online on Skype, so she called me. There's an ocean between us currently. She said she called me because she was writing an email to me, but couldn't find the Send button, so didn't know how to send it. Either it made her feel stupid or frustrated, or she felt so sad that she couldn't send an email to me that she had spent some time writing, or whatever, but she started crying. She was crying because she couldn't find the Send button in gmail. She's approaching 60 and isn't as technically adept as some of us, so that is admittedly a factor.
> Seeing her cry about this made me change the way I think about what some users go through when they experience unexpected UI changes. I remember hearing people say they got confused by Windows 8 tiles, and didn't think it was such a big deal. After seeing my mom cry over a UI change, I think there are better ways to implement UI changes than simply shoving them down people's throat. Sure, if it must be done, it must be done (UI change), but don't shove it down people's throats unexpectedly and with no hand-holding at all.
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I'm 100% aware that writing about being downvoted brings more downvotes, and I don't give a monkey's multicolored ass about it. If I can't even suggest a software to solve an user's problem then Houston we have a much much worse problem than downvoted users being downvoted for writing about downvotes.
BTW, the image I linked is the only one that comes out by searching "claws mail dark theme", just in case someone thinks I'm affiliated with that other site and is too lazy to check.
HN: what about forcing users to give a short reason for downvoting? This time I know I'm 100% right but newbies (including myself when I landed here) have a hard time figuring what's wrong in their fading posts without any explanation. Post ratings should strive to be accurate because everyone benefits from it; I can't think of an useful information being hidden because some trigger happy users or their bosses don't like it.
How is this a feature worth developing? Is leaving the email unread until you want to read it too difficult? I can't think of a single use case for this.
Once you see the inbox as a task list, you will understand the feature.
A to-do list sorted by the time the task was put on the list is not optimal. Some people would like to see the tasks that they have to do this week (send pictures to Emily), and not in three months (check-in for the upcoming flight).
I was not aware of this feature myself until just now, but I'm going to be a user of it.
You can also snooze to locations. So having the email popup when you get home for example.
I can easily keep Inbox:0 by deferring things until I actually need to deal with them. Inbox does the best job by bundling like emails which can then processed together.