Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Google unveils new Gmail intro page and Unified Login


"Do not adjust your TV sets"... no, we're not rewatching an "Outer Limits" episode, but you might think somethings definitely strange when you see what Google has done with one of the most visited and well known pages on the web: the gmail login page.


[old Gmail intro page]

If you're a Gmail user, you probably have this image burned into your retina - particularly if you have to login a couple of times a day from different computers that you don't want to keep "logged in" all the time. It was a simple page, in the best Google tradition, that only occasionally changed the "ad part" on the left side.

Now compare it with the image on top, the new Gmail intro page, with all the new Google style into action: a big image dominating most of the screen, a feature list below it, explaining everything you have to gain by using Gmail, etc. etc.

It's a much better looking page, but it has also lost one of the thing 99.9% of the visitors go there to do - the actual sign in!

Now you have to click on a sign in link on the top (where even the "Create an Account" option deserves more visibility), and you get thrown into a new unified account sign in page.


A page that reminds you that by signing in to Gmail (or whatever service), you're actually signing in into all of Google's services.


After talking with some friends to see if they had seen this news pages, none of them hadn't. And when I signed out of Google and tried to sign in again, I was once again presented with the old sign in page. So... this might simply be one of the many small scale tests Google continuously does. But by the looks of it, it looks far to polished not to be "the real deal".

So, I guess it's just a matter of time till everyone starts seeing these new pages.

3 comments:

  1. The new sign page sucks. Takes longer and is not user friendly for users with more than one email account. Give us the option to use the old sign in page!

    Between Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, how much more change do we need. What ever happened to K.I.S.S.?? Are you all trying to chase away the older users who don't want to change & learn things all over again?

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    1. I'd also prefer to have the login input boxes right in the first page... but you know how Google is... they do as they please, and the users have no choice but to "adapt".

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  2. "The new sign page sucks. Takes longer and is not user friendly for users with more than one email account. Give us the option to use the old sign in page!". I log into different accounts and that really really really sucks with this new brain damaged page!!!!!!!!!! FIX IT!!!!!

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