If you notice something different the next time you open the Google app or the news section of your mobile launcher, it’s not your imagination: Google is testing a new design for the cards with widgets that display weather information and other details.
These cards, which appear under the search engine in the Google application, They are bigger now and they have a clearly visible button to modify their settings which, moreover, allows us to know what the official name of the function is: “your space”.
larger cards
The Google app has two rows of cards and buttons below the search engine. The first of them is strictly related to searches and invites us to translate texts with the camera, search for photos on our cell phone, identify songs and similar tasks, while the second is a row of widgets or maps with weather information and, possibly, others.
This line has a name: it is called “your space” and has gone from displaying small widgets to much larger maps. You can see the difference in the following image.
Before (left) and after (right). Screenshots from 9to5Google
This is a mainly visual change that in some cases will not show us more text (the weather map, for example, continues to show temperature and location), but in others it seems allow an additional line of text which will be useful if we have active sports scorecards. With more information or not, the truth is that it makes the end result a little less claustrophobic than with the previous design.
Along the way comes a new options button at the end of the row of spaces, where we can adjust, as always, if we want to see the air quality, our actions, sports results and the weather. The design of this button was simply a pencil icon.
This is not the first time that Google has alternated between more or less “big-headed” Material You elements and a good example of this can be found in the Google app itself, which has included a search bar for some time extra-large.
By | 9to5Google
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