[Sigia-l] Does interface design matter?

[David Mendels]

Another entrant, very desktop like, and rapidly growing email client in
this space is www.goowy.com  

_David
 

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> Davezilla:
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> > I use GMail and happen to be friends with the interface designer of 
> > it. Yahoo's *does* look nice, like a real application. I suspect 
> > Google will respond.
> 
> I've been an admirer of Google's architects but a long-time 
> critic of their interface designers, who admittedly work for 
> the engineers.
> 
> For a while, Yahoo was lost in the wilderness of expedient 
> web commercialism without any hope. I'm actually impressed by 
> the number of moves they've made in the past year. So 
> hopefully they'll be a worthy competitor to Google.
> 
> One way to attack GMail was their interface design and, even 
> though Yahoo is using a traditional three-pane UI, it seems 
> they have taken the right visual design bet against it. Good 
> on Yahoo and let's hope they'll wake up higher-ups at Google 
> to pay more attention to the visual aspects of interface design.
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