Hangouts Chat Desktop UI Refreshed With New Material Theme Elements
Jul. 21, 2018The Material Themeredesign of the Hangouts Chat website isn’t too expansiveand only tweaks the elements necessary to highlight the new design guidelines.
The search box in the sidebar on the right, as you can see below, now has a “rectangular” outline and shadow as compared to the previous flat aesthetic. It now also has the ‘Find people, rooms, bots’ label within the search box to give you a better idea of what all you can rummage around for.
At the top left, Google has made the settings icon more prominent. Theprevious ‘three-dots’ overlay menu has now been replaced with an outlined cog, along with a new help button next to it. All other icons in the drop-down menu have also been hollowed out to make it similar to the new guidelines. This design is in line with the new material theme guideline that we’ve seenroll out in Android P beta 3a couple week ago.
You may have also noticed the new, more prominently place ‘New conversation’ button at the bottom of the interface. It has the same multicolored ‘plus’ icon that we have seen in Gmail, which will make it simpler for you to start a chat with your teammates.
If you’re a regular user of Hangouts Chat, you would’ve also noticed that the cards on the homepage are smaller and spaced out in comparison to the previous design. This makes the whole interface look a lot cleaner, which seems to be the common theme in the new design. We can expect to see similar changes being rolled out to most Google products over the coming weeks.
