Google Chat web app gets a little prettier with new Material You design

He was the last to act, but there is a difference: Google Chat on the web will be provided with Material You design. Drive, Gmail and the Office programs have already been there, but now Google Chat also looks like the new Material You design that was introduced on the Pixel phones.

Material You

The Material You design has been around for quite a long time: Google announced the design language back in 2014 and it was first used in Android 12. Since then, Google has been providing more and more of its products with that new design. Of course the Pixel phones, but also the Office programs and more.

The new design means that a different font is used and that there are other colors, layouts and window options. Google writes: “This update is based on Google’s Material Design 3. Specifically, you’ll see changes to the top app bar, left navigation, main message view, composing setting, new topic button, and dialog within direct messages and spaces.”

Google Chat

The background is light blue and on top of that the conversation is kept white. You can search in the pill-shaped search field at the top. Don’t you see it yet? That could be right. Fortunately, this new look is being rolled out very widely (both to Google Workspace customers and G Suite Basic/Business users, plus people with a personal Google account). But it will take a while: it will be rolled out in the coming weeks.

A lot is changing for people who use Google for business. For example, it was announced yesterday that Google Currents will stop (on July 5), although people are supposed to use Spaces within Google Chat, because 8,000 people can join the same meeting at the same time. Soon you will also be able to create a kind of announcement channel in it.

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