With over 30 million Outlook users active through the mobile version (smartphone and tablet), Office has released a new and fresh user interface design for the email app.
The visuals are a loud resemblance of the Sunrise calendar, which Microsoft recently acquired, as LifeHacker tells us. The calendar app defaults to the current date by default and then from there you can move around in various ways. More or less, the whole new experience is like having a Sunrise app inside your outlook.
Javier Soltero, on Office's official blog, shares how the outlook team aims to put your email, calendar, people and files front and center with the new design. There have been a wide selection of UI elements tweaked to make it look more fun and simple.
Other major changes involve an overhaul to the page for composing messages, adding an 'event call out' in the inbox view that have a corresponding event in the content and revised navigations. Outlook's sunrise version now matches Apple iOS9's recent look very well.
Speaking of iOS 9, the Apple version of outlook is now out and transformed from the look that was launched last January to the flat and clean design it now has today. Android on the other hand will be getting their new version by early November.
Outlook has held the position among the top 20 most downloaded apps for quite a while now in both Google Play and App Store, PC World states. That's a pretty good record for a heavy-duty productivity app.
There are more changes and upgrades coming to Outlook users, like an inbox that shows images of the contact who sent an email if the user's address book contains a photo of the email sender. Outlook's next and biggest mid-term goal is to be able to sync outlook across various devices. Such features, if accomplished, will play a big role in the advancement of Microsoft's overall performance as a major player in the tech scene.
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