Google on September 8 announced a series of updates to its Google Workspace offering among which is the redesign of Gmail user interface. The new interface, shown below, makes clear one thing: Google is trying to make Gmail the go-to place for all its users' communication needs. https://twitter.com/GoogleWorkspace/status/1435686920269488133?s=20 Email is just one part of Gmail now With the redesign, Google's core communication apps: Gmail, Chat, Spaces, and Meet, all get their own prominent spot in the left sidebar of the Gmail web interface and in the tabs of the Gmail app. Email is now just one of the four main parts of Gmail. Google has been adding these new apps and features to Gmail since the beginning of the pandemic to make work from home easier and to take on work-focused products from other companies like Microsoft Outlook. Spaces: While Chat is for one-on-one messaging, Spaces is a rebranding of Rooms, which is meant for group chats, tasks, projects and collaborations. It is a Slack-like product built into Gmail. [caption id="attachment_145034" align="alignnone" width="880"] Screenshot of Spaces tab in Gmail. Source: Google[/caption] Google Meet Calling: Meet is Google's video conferencing product, but Google has now added one-on-one calling feature to Meet in the Gmail app. "Soon I’ll be able to call members of my team directly from a one-to-one chat. This will ring their device running the Gmail mobile app and send a call chip to our chat on their laptop, so they can easily answer from any device," the company said. Strangely, the…
