Google Keep is a relatively simple notes app, but admittedly slightly condensed parts of the interface, such as button panel. Google has noticed this and is preparing a rather radical redesign that will breathe new life into the floating button concept.

Soon Google Keep will lose its bottom button panel and replace it with a new floating button This will allow us to see more of our notes, rather than taking up the entire bottom section like the current bar. In return, we will lose direct access to creating some types of custom notes.

This will be the Google Keep of the future

Google continues to improve the design of its notes application Google Keep. On this occasion, we are not talking about further text formats or similar, but change to the interface that will make it even more minimalist.

Currently, our Google Keep notes view shows a button panel with a large + button for creating a new note and four buttons for creating notes with specific elements (boxes, handwritten drawings, voice recordings, and images). The bar is fixed and always visibleIf we have a lot of notes, we lose this space when looking at our notes.

The current Google Keep bottom bar layout (left) and the new one (right). Screenshots from 9to5Google

In the future this bottom bar will change to: new floating pill shaped button. The + button to create a new note is centered and highlighted, and next to it is a shortcut to create a note with boxes and handwritten doodles.

This means that We will not have direct access to create a note with images or recordings audio, but nothing prevents you from creating a new regular note and then adding the images or audio you want.

In return we will have slightly less overloaded design, more space to see our notes and fewer overlapping buttons. This new type of floating button may become the norm in Google applications in the future, but as of today it has not yet been typified within Material Design.

via | 9to5Google

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