[Sigia-l] Does interface design matter?

[Dave Heller]

> 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 think it will be a real test of do people want convention? are
conventions good?

Yahoo is conventional. Gmail is unconventional. Gmail though is an
attempt to change, not the interface, but the way people use e-mail.
As an avid user of Gmail and also a long time user of Yahoo, Outlook,
Entourage, etc. I feel that this is a touch one to peg. I like the
conventional and the unconventional. I know IBM had their take at
unconventional messaging (e-mail) and there is an open source project
called Zimbra that is sorta a hybrid of the two models. Desktop
application interface + tagging & conversations.

-- dave

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