Logging in to Gmail tonight I was greeted with this popup:

Gmail and Contacts updates

Contacts has been renovated and Gmail has some spruced-up changes, moving email closer to the top of your window, about 16 pixels higher, according to the Gmail blog. So I read a little bit of the writeup in Gmail help and checked out the new look. Contacts is surprisingly different and I’ll probably be checking that out for a while since its the biggest change.

Gmail interface changesCONTACTS

Its now simpler to add or edit a contact, the interface is cleaner and less distracted. Contacts are displayed more like mail in a long list, and adding contacts to different groups is very easy. Also, you can undo changes now, very handy. Ooops, was that DELETED? No problem, just UNDO.

There’s also automatic saving and more standard name fields.

GMAIL

Mail, Contacts and Tasks are now at the top, followed by Compose Mail which is now a button instead of a text link. Now I am waiting for ActiveInbox to update so I can use it again since that interface has disappeared!

Emails (as mentioned previously) are just a little closer to the top of the window now, and the left sidebar seems different, though I guess that could be due to my Gmail theme.