Gmail: Composing Emails

A recreation of Gmail's email composer and reading pane, rebuilt in Figma to study the underlying interaction patterns.

Client
Personal Case Study
Year
2023
Role
UI recreation, design system study
Tools
Figma

Gmail is one of the most-used email clients in the world, which makes it a good subject for studying how a mature product handles a genuinely hard interaction problem: composing and reading email without losing your place in a long list.

This recreation covers the compose window in its collapsed, expanded, and full-screen states, plus the reading pane and its reply/forward affordances — rebuilt component by component in Figma to see how Google structures the underlying design system rather than just eyeballing the surface.

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