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Four new themes
September 3, 2009
Posted by Jake Knapp, UI Designer and Manu Cornet, Software Engineer
Manu
: Hey Jake, you still using that same old theme?
Jake
: Well, yeah. I mean, I like it -- but I don't know... I guess it just doesn't feel as new as it used to.
Manu
: I hear ya. Well, good news! Today four new themes are out there for everybody. Just go to the
Themes tab under Settings
...and ta da!
Jake
: (click, click) There we go!
Manu
: Should we tell people about why we created these four themes?
Jake
: We should.
Manu
: Assuming they're still reading.
Jake
: Right. Okay, well,
Gmail themes
have been out since November, and I know we were ready for some new ones.
Manu
: And we heard some of you asking for new ones too. So we thought about what we wanted to stare at all day long, since we work on Gmail.
Jake
: I've been living in Zurich for the last year, and I missed Washington State, where I grew up. The Orcas Island theme definitely takes away a little bit of that homesickness with a new image each day of the week.
Manu
: Homesickness eh? What about timesickness?
Jake
: There's such a thing?
Manu
: Totally. Sometimes I find myself timesick.
Jake
: For when?
Manu
: For a simpler time. For a time when processors weren't too fast. When graphics weren't too realistic.
Jake
: Sounds like a real bummer. Too bad there's no cure for timesickness.
Manu
: That's where you're dead wrong, my friend. Take a look at High Score. It's like being in a time machine isn't it?
Jake
: (click, click) Aren't these colors a little bright?
Manu
: Aren't you supposed to be a designer?
Jake
: We'll have to agree to disagree, my friend. This one just isn't for me. I need something soothing. Something like laying face down in the grass.
Manu
: I suppose you're talking about Turf now. What's the story behind that one?
Jake
: Well, who doesn't like the color green?
Manu
: And it doesn't change every day, so it was easier for us to make.
Jake
: Are you suggesting we're lazy?
Manu
: Prove that we're not.
Jake
: We just made four new themes. How about that?
Manu
: It took us ten months. And the fourth theme (Random) merely cycles through all the others.
Jake
: Well, enjoy these themes for now. And, of course,
let us know
what you think. Maybe we'll have some more for you in the next ten months ;)
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