- Google Messages has been working on a new animation for adding messages to your chats.
- Rather than rising straight from the bottom, this change has messages expanding from the corners.
Do the subtleties of a finely crafted user interface go wasted on you? Or are you the kind of app user who notices every last little icon color tweak and menu reorganization? While it can be easy to dismiss some of those smaller changes as inconsequential, in a well-executed UI, all those little elements play a part in contributing to a more cohesive, intuitive, and ultimately more productive and enjoyable app experience. And right now we’re seeing an update right along theses lines rolling out for Google Messages.
Last month, we were digging into one of Google’s latest updates for its Messages app when we discovered work towards a new look for adding messages to a conversation. The way the interface had been behaving, when you either entered a new message yourself, or received one from the person you were chatting with, that text bubble would pop straight up from the bottom of the screen. Here’s how that used to look: