Google wants to make Gmail your new “home for work” by consolidating email, Chat, and Meet into one browser window, as well as mobile app.

That said, the company will maintain standalone applications for messaging and video calling, with Google Chat testing a web client redesign.

Google Chat today is available for paying Workspace customers, while personal accounts can get access to it on a per-conversation basis if they’re invited.

The current web interface is a side drawer grouped by Pinned, Chat (single user or group messages), Rooms, and Bots.

The redesign is mostly the same, but simplified with the left panel only showing Chat and Rooms, as well as Gmail’s Google Meet shortcuts for “New” and “Join a meeting.” Threads appear at the right, but you now have the ability to “exit full screen” from the top-right corner.

This creates a tiny chat window that’s identical to Hangouts — Gchat before it — in web Gmail.

This Google Chat web redesign is not widely rolled out and appeared on a personal account.