Gmail experience to improve with mobile friendly responsive design

Many websites and internet platforms have adapted to responsive design format as more and more users are consuming content on the smartphone. The increasing numbers of apps are also designed to have a mobile-friendly design to fit everything into a small screen. Joining the bandwagon is the late entrant Google.

Google has announced that it is redesigning its Gmail interface by implementing responsive design for emails in Gmail to make emails more reader friendly on mobile. With responsive design, mails will adjust themselves to the type of device they are being viewed on, whether mobiles or desktops.

Usually, emails were default formatted to the large desktop screen, and reading them on the smartphone was a huge hassle. It made seeing the entire image a troublesome experience, because images were too large to display on the small screen, which means they extended outside of the screen. In other cases, some mails are formatted with the mobile display in mind, making them strange to read on the desktop.

However, Google's new responsive design aims to alleviate both issues. If the message is adaptive, it will automatically resize its contents to help you see an image fully, read content and tap links with ease.

Pierce Vollucci, Product Manager at Google, said in a statement, "Starting later this month, Gmail and Inbox by Gmail will support emails created with responsive design, meaning their content adapts to fit screens of all sizes. Text, links, and even buttons will enlarge to make reading and tapping easier on a smaller screen. If you're on desktop, you'll also see improvements, since emails designed for mobile can also adapt to fit larger screens."

Whatever the case may be, it is time Gmail cleared its mess! We definitely welcome this new move.