The new gmail is a toy for kids.
GMail has some bits I don't like, but by and large I'm a pretty big fan.
> What it looks like, really, is a slightly oversized version of Gchat. And that’s no accident. Google’s actively trying to make email less fussy and formal--or, in other words, to make it a little more like instant messaging. And as Jason Cornwell, Gmail’s lead designer, explains, one of the ways to do that is simply to "give you permission to write shorter messages." [...]
> "It was a space that was sort of intimidating, I think, to write a message like 'Hey, wanna get lunch?'" he explains. "We wanted the new compose to facilitate these quicker messages. Or at least make it a space where that felt appropriate."
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672250/how-a-tiny-new-compose-w...
Dear Google, please don't feel you need to give me permission to write the above. And definitely don't remove or change handy features to achieve such an objective. It's my business how I compose email, and my responsibility for justifying the occasions where a formal style is needed vs casual. Just make the interface useful and stop trying to turn email into something it's not.
http://www.stanford.edu/~savage/flaw/Article_files/image002....
It seems I'm almost alone thinking this way, though -- it's not a complaint I often hear from other people.
Remember when Google tried to build a brand new huge piece of technology meant to revolutionise communication on the web? Nobody adopted it, was called Wave.
If you need more space, the box expands; there is also a pop-out button so you can make it as big as you want.
> Who decided it would be a good idea to put the "reply" edit box at the end of a potentially very long email?
There is also a 'Reply' button right at the top of the email. You don't need to scroll at all.
It's not that bad, definitely not terrible.
not 0%...50%
That's what disingenuous presentations do when they want to make a graph scary, they cut the axis to scale the data and ditch the sense of perspective.
Made worse by the fact that the author didn't need to do that at all. Going from 10% -> 40% is a hell of a jump, even in perspective that's impressive.