I went back to the original setting. Some, I outright hated; with some, I found that I took much longer to finish scanning and getting through my unread email. I liked one, but will wait till they let me customize themes, if not letting me create a new one.
Abhi Abhijith Rao On 11/22/08, Pelin Atasoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I liked this move, since I found Gmail's standart colors very light for me > to focus on some areas. One of the never themes fit quite well to my > preferences, so I think that will be my classic setting from now on. > But I also think that some of the themes have very light contrast scheme, > which I find (again) a little hard to differentiate between some areas.... > However I suppose contrast levels differ depending on screen settings, to an > extent. > > Lastly, I always find optional image-based background schemes such a vain > efffort since these kind of preferences are subtle to change even with your > own mood. So if you are an 'excitement' seeker type of user it wont satisfy > you anyway. If Google aims to provide some enjoyment, they would make it > customizable by letting people to add their own pictures at the background, > (may be with some transparency added for visibility) and have a fully > personalized image background. Just think of how many people would prefer to > use default desktop images that Microsoft provided on their desktop, and > feel that they 'personalized' their computer... Providing customizable > images may put some demand on system performance, but in my opinion this is > the way it should be. > > cheers.. > > -- > Pelin ATASOY > > PhD Student, Research Assistant > Middle East Technical University > Faculty of Architecture > Department of Industrial Design > www.id.metu.edu.tr > > METU-BILTIR-UTEST Product Usability Unit > www.utest.metu.edu.tr > > tel: +90 312 210 4220 > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Sent from my mobile device Abhijith ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
