What’s changing
Earlier this year, Google announced a modernised Google Chat based on Google’s Material Design 3 that included updates to the font, colours, layouts, panel sizing and more.
Building upon this, Google are introducing message bubbles to enable users to more easily differentiate incoming versus outgoing messages in the Chat message stream.
Currently, all messages in Chat are aligned the same regardless of the sender and displayed without any visual containers that separate messages into clear groups.
Update includes:
- Each incoming message will have an independent message bubble aligned to one side with a solid colour background
- Each outgoing message will have an independent message bubble aligned to the other side with a different colour background
