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Gmail to Get New Icon as Part of G Suite Rebranding

vertical smile said:
Studies on icons?
I guess it is nice that they are listening to their users, but I didn't realize that so much went into icon decisions.
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It's pretty remarkable how much effort goes into it; on the Netflix show Abstract: The Art of Design, there's an episode about Instagram, and one segment talks about how they came up with their current icon. Hundreds of pages of options were considered -- pretty interesting
 
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Too many colors for an icon, too many icons with exactly the same colors. I’m not a designer but this seems so incredibly obvious it shouldn’t even be a problem.
 
I don’t get why Google likes this branding that looks like it would be found in a children’s daycare. Doesn’t affect me, but I just don’t get it.
 
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At least it's better than the horrible new Google Photos icon.

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I really wish Google would consider bringing back the "free" version of Google Apps/G-Suite/Workspace. At one point in time, you could get an unlimited Apps instance for free, no cost beyond paying for the domain, and it was great for families and really small workgroups/businesses. I still have some running (lost my personal one, unfortunately, when I accidentally let the domain expire). A limit of 5 to 10 users would be PERFECT. Google started offering this around the time that Apple started moving away from allowing personal domains on .Mac and to iCloud; Apple still doesn't allow personal domains. So it was great. And it was before Office 365. (FYI: Office 365 Home now DOES allow personal domains! Though it doesn't work a lot of the times and MS support seems intent on not really supporting the feature).

And interesting move would be to make Google Workspace free for 3 users.

As an alternative, making it so that just the Administrator account of G-Suite/Workspace was a free account would be nice too. Annoying my clients have to pay $72 a year for me to admin their Google services, even though I don't actually use them. Microsoft 365 doesn't require an Admin to have a license (though there are a lot of brick walls you can run into without a license, around not having an Exchange mail account for instance).
 
vertical smile said:
Studies on icons?
I guess it is nice that they are listening to their users, but I didn't realize that so much went into icon decisions.
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Yep. It's identity. Some people are familiar with this being done with overall corporate identity including logos. App icons are the new logos.
 
ScooterComputer said:
I really wish Google would consider bringing back the "free" version of Google Apps/G-Suite/Workspace. At one point in time, you could get an unlimited Apps instance for free, no cost beyond paying for the domain, and it was great for families and really small workgroups/businesses. I still have some running (lost my personal one, unfortunately, when I accidentally let the domain expire). A limit of 5 to 10 users would be PERFECT. Google started offering this around the time that Apple started moving away from allowing personal domains on .Mac and to iCloud; Apple still doesn't allow personal domains. So it was great. And it was before Office 365. (FYI: Office 365 Home now DOES allow personal domains! Though it doesn't work a lot of the times and MS support seems intent on not really supporting the feature).

And interesting move would be to make Google Workspace free for 3 users.

As an alternative, making it so that just the Administrator account of G-Suite/Workspace was a free account would be nice too. Annoying my clients have to pay $72 a year for me to admin their Google services, even though I don't actually use them. Microsoft 365 doesn't require an Admin to have a license (though there are a lot of brick walls you can run into without a license, around not having an Exchange mail account for instance).
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They don't seem to have a package that would allow an individual to use a custom domain and have 100GB storage fo original quality photos etc. in Google One. I just need email and photo storage. Now I have Google One for 20 Euros a year and email with Protonmail for 40 Euros a year. I don't really need Proton for encryption as none of the people or firms I send messages to use Proton. But having a custom domain mail account with Google requires the business subscription.
 
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No biggie. As long as Outlook for iOS can read and reply to Gmail, as it does now, that's all that matters to me.
 
Gotta erase anything that jerk Marissa Mayer touched with her Vogue hands before jumping to Yahoo and tanking it.
 
There’s also a new icon available for Outlook for iOS since a week or two. It’s available in Settings where you choose theme. You can now choose between light or dark icon. The dark icon is very nice.
 
AppleTO said:
Are there desktop apps for the G Suite? I know some people use it instead of Office 365, but I never have. Or do they just use the apps in a web browser..?
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No, they do not have desktop apps, they do have iOS and Android apps, but no Windows, Linux or macOS apps. They do have desktop icons for their different document types integrated as part of their Google File Stream Google Drive desktop integration, but they open your default browser when you open them. Very good productivity suite, decent compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats - our company and several of our other modern and non-entrenched clients have gone over completely to it, and it works very well.
 
I don’t like it because the Icons now all look the same. Makes it hard to identify them.
Before it was rather simple:
Blue = docs (okay and calendar)
green = sheets
Yellow = slides
Red = mail
Multicolored = drive, where all formats sit.
 
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az431 said:
So your take on this is that software engineers are taking time off from coding to draw icons?

Yeah makes perfect sense

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Nope, the oposite, I don’t think any of the google service app deserve a better design if they can’t support the basic functions of the os. Where is mouse support? Or PiP? Or the freakin 4k what we are teased the whole summer?
 
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