Google seems to be testing the Material 3 Expressive UI in the latest Google Messages beta (20250528_00_RC00) via a ...

Maybe you’re like me—when a company refreshes its branding, I don’t give the news much of my time. In fact, when Google first ...

Google started testing a homescreen redesign ... Instead of a search field, there’s an app bar with the four-color “G” logo followed by “Messages” and a magnifying glass icon.

In the Banner, we see the Google logo on the left with the text “Messages” right next to it. The next change is the lack of the hamburger-style menu that used to be on the top left of the UI.

“Messages” still appears as a large heading, but it’s now joined by the four-color ‘G’ logo up top for very prominent Google branding, which is presumably the intention behind the ...