Design lessons from Gmail web app

The simple of act of checking emails became a slog a couple of weeks back when Google implemented the latest design of Gmail iOS app into Gmail web app. It looks pretty at a distance but when you actually start using it you’ll find that besides few minor slippages it has got one basic problem – the content is not readable. The design is suboptimal at best. I want to use this opportunity to convey some of the design lessons it provides and walk through a minor redesign that incorporates those lessons.