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They sacrificed a TON of usability in order to become this artsy. I am not sure why since art has nothing to do with email--especially not business email.

The worse example of this is their feature tour. It is actually very painful to read now with way too much space wasted on illustration that contribute nothing. I couldn't find a single screenshot of the app.

I sure hope they are split testing this.

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I think artsy is the wrong word. It's just more muted, pastel and common.

As of my check, there is a giant chimp mascot on the front page, so they might have changed that, but the rest just looks like 50% of design shop redesigns from the last 3-4 years.

The massive title on the home page is "Still free, just bigger." Still free what? Spell it out for people.

I, like almost everyone commenting here, preferred the older design and personally would've run with tweaking that for the next 2-3 years rather than pushing out a redesign for the sake of it.

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