Gboard introduced a Material 3 Expressive redesign of shortcuts in January that is now seeing wider availability for beta users.
Update 5/26: Beta Gboard users as of version 17.4 have lost this shortcut redesign in the past day. Stable users have yet to see this revamp. This is hopefully a sign that Google is ready to widely roll this update out.
Original 5/18: Gboard previously used a grid layout for the shortcuts page. Each item was placed in a small rectangular card, and you could adjust the keyboard (make it taller in Resize) to fit in one view without vertical scrolling.
The Material 3 Expressive redesign places everything in a rounded pill, with two shortcuts fitting into each row. You now swipe left to see the next page of tools.
Old vs. new
