Hi everyone 👋 My name is Tomer and I’m a Product Designer here at daily.dev. Today I want to share with you some of the work we’ve done to make emails more useful and mobile-friendly!
We’ve been growing fast, and with our growing community, there’s been a big increase in interactions. More people are upvoting, commenting, and sharing content every day, which means more notifications, emails, and updates flying around. We saw how many emails were going out and realized: we could make these a lot more useful.
We started by looking at the issues with our current email layout. The main problem? The important stuff is often hidden below the fold, meaning you have to scroll to find the message. Also, our emails weren’t mobile-friendly enough, which is a big deal because most of you are reading emails on your phones. Here’s an example of how things looked before:
<img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--BVQ8N8bR--/f_auto/v1728646559/ugc/content_c7e132e5-fdd0-41f0-adfc-ffd5e5ae11da" alt="1 - Original Email with Problems Highlighted">
Emails often had long subject lines that pushed content down, and the header (like a logo or squad image) took up too much space. The result? The actual content you care about got buried.
To fix this, we completely redesigned the layout. Now, we keep things compact, placing the key message at the top, right where you can see it without scrolling. We also shortened the subject lines and removed unnecessary header space so the email gets right to the point. Here’s how it looks now:
<img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CDSfTTd9--/f_auto/v1728646632/ugc/content_cdcdebe0-69e3-4d77-8fe4-30894f3102c6" alt="2 - Redesigned Email with Key Improvements">
Finally, this isn’t just a one-off change; we applied this cleaner, more user-focused design to all our emails. Now, you get a simple, readable layout across notifications, updates, and more.
<img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--EE8tHYcq--/f_auto/v1728646642/ugc/content_80ee6444-f7a4-4f65-b792-2124515a69db" alt="3 - Carousel of Various Redesigned Emails">
With this redesign, we hope daily.dev emails are now easier to use and more valuable for you. Hope you’ll love it too!

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Tomer, a Product Designer at daily.dev, shares how the team made their email notifications more useful and mobile-friendly. Recognizing that important content was often buried, they redesigned the layout to place key messages at the top, shortened subject lines, and removed unnecessary header space. These improvements apply to all email notifications, making them simpler and more readable.

Making our email notifications useful and mobile-friendly

I was wondering… how the desktop view is after this change? Is the new layout responsive?

I’m in love! well done design team 💌