Yes. They talk in the blog how they've changed their blogging system. I, too, had been getting them via e-mail. It's nothing you did, it's how they changed.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:52 AM, DEP/Dodo <[email protected]> wrote: > I knew I used to get the Official Gmail Blog via e-mail! I have them all > from the time I subscribed until they just stopped coming. Here's one from > a couple of years ago. > *~Dodo* > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: The Gmail Team <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:00 AM > Subject: [Official Gmail Blog] Designing Gmail’s new left navigation > To: [email protected] > > > Posted by Jason Cornwell, User Experience Designer > > One of our goals for the Gmail's new > look<http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/gmails-new-look.html>was to make > Gmail feel more like a native application with independently > scrolling panels rather than a website that scrolls as a single page. This > design approach brings with it many advantages: the search box and primary > navigation are always in the same place, your inbox unread count is always > visible, etc. As with any design decision there were challenges with making > this change. People with lots of labels might have their chat contacts > pushed entirely off the screen and those with gadgets, like the Google Docs > or Calendar gadgets, might have to scroll the left panel past both the > labels and the chat contacts in order to see them. > > We went through a number of different design revisions to try and address > these issues as elegantly as possible. We experimented with several > accordion designs, which stack sections on top of each other but only allow > one or two to be open at a time. > > <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hlZ-x9kRGxc/Ttz2nDxFo8I/AAAAAAAAAeE/6-KFWxxee44/s1600/accordion.png> > We also experimented with designs that involved only one scrolling region, > but showed fewer entries per section. > > <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nfApp0SRcUs/Ttz2nI1MBqI/AAAAAAAAAeM/gX9JegJyRkA/s1600/truncation.png> > The final design combines aspects of both approaches. It is a ducking > accordion design with only two sections. The bottom section has two tabs, > one for chat and one for gadgets, with room to add more tabs in the future. > The upper section, which contains labels, expands to show all of the > visible labels when you mouse over it. This allows you to see chat contacts > but still give quick access to the labels. Best of all, you can easily > adjust the balance between labels and chat to fit your own personal > preference by dragging the divider between the sections up and down. > > <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bL4yvL7pcQY/Ttz2ncKfaEI/AAAAAAAAAec/SkaYDfScSj0/s1600/today.png> > This design went through a number of iterations as well. We carefully > adjusted the timing and triggering behavior of the expanding labels section > to minimize accidental triggering. We noticed in usability testing that > having the labels section expand when you are mousing over the Inbox label > delete didn't work for everyone. We tweaked the system only to expand if > you moved your mouse below the inbox label and keep it there for a moment. > We also tried to ensure that if you are moving your mouse to click on a > particular label or chat contact, that label or chat contact will never > move out from under you. > > The end result is a system that is more flexible, more responsive, and > always keeps your chat contacts and unread count visible without adding a > lot of complexity or requiring too much clicking around. > > -- > Posted By The Gmail Team to Official Gmail > Blog<http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/designing-gmails-new-left-navigation.html>at > 12/05/2011 09:00:00 AM > > -- > You received this message because you subscribed to the Gmail Blog via > email. > To unsubscribe, email [email protected]. More > info at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-blog-posts?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
