In any case, well find out more over the next couple of weeks as Google is holding its Cloud Next online event.
For mobile Gmail, the redesign suggests the intro of bottom tabs that allow you to change in between 4 sections: Mail, Chat, Rooms, and Meet. If you know Google services, all of these are pretty self-explanatory. Mail is the regular e-mail section, Chat lets you hold immediate messaging-style discussions with co-workers, Rooms is a Slack-like group chat experience, and Meet offers you access to video-conferencing. In Chat and Rooms, Gmail will also send you follow-up tips if you individuals do not respond in time, just like the pushes you get in Mail.
Google has just recently announced that it was integrating its video-conferencing service Meet with the Gmail app, a move that was fulfilled with some criticism. As it ends up, the introduction of the Meet tab was just the beginning of a transformation. Designer Tahin Rahman found slides from Googles upcoming Cloud Next 20 event that demonstrate how the business is wanting to turn the Gmail app and site into a one-stop productivity center, with Meet, Chat, Docs, and Rooms constructed right into the service.
Its unclear if this tight integration with Googles performance tools will make it to the consumer variation of Gmail as these functions are clearly targeted at organizations. I wouldnt be shocked if we see a minimum of a few of these coming over– after all, Google Meet already lives in regular Gmail users inboxes. Ideally, the new functions will not make Gmail an even larger memory hog on desktop, however thats practically inescapable. Maybe well be able to switch off unnecessary modules, which is already possible for Meet in the Gmail app.
These exact same areas will also make it into the Gmail web app, though theyll sit in the sidebar, where each sections contents are accessible and instantly visible. Further screenshots show that youll have the ability to team up on documents right in Gmail, giving you access to chats, video-conferencing, and Google Docs all in the very same web app– this may turbo charge productivity, but it might also end up being unpleasant pretty fast on smaller sized screens.
