1. Persona
Designed to change the perception and experience of sending and
receiving emails by focusing on People, the Conversations between
them and the Knowledge shared in emails today.
Philosophy - Process - Delivery
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2. Email today
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3. Email clients today
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4. Total work area
Legacy
elements
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The Desktop
metaphor
People
Organizations Content, data,
Ads,Group mail etc Conversations
Aspects of mail
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5. “What are the core elements of an email client that
make it meaningful to use?”
“What must be the level of personalization or
customization in a software?”
“Can we leave the “Inbox” model aside?”
Getting Inspired-Critical Inquiry
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6. Getting Inspired - Speaking to people
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7. Insights
Email as a connector among people
Feature monsters - Power users vs Regular users
Outdated metaphors for mental models - Legacy elements
Quick mailing / messaging - Snippets of conversation
Finding an attachment - Exchange of data
Emails are a flow, organization is automatic
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8. Our work :
Meaningful distillation of
content and information
Clients today
Data , content in mail
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9. Total work area
People
(Family, friends
etc)
Conversations
Content
Data
The focus of email - Making it personal
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10. sketching... a lot
Sketches - Wireframes - Visualizing flow
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11. Thumbnails
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12. Concepts
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13. Wireframes - Visualizing flow
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14. Our focus
The People
Conversations among people
Media shared among people
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15. Three views
People
Conversations
Attachments
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16. From sketches ...
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17. ... to Pixel detail
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18. Storytelling and Communication
Video - https://vimeo.com/25588286
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19. A Focus on People
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20. Sociality
Using mental models from IM prevalent in social media platforms
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21. Adaptability
Different faces to information consumption - Choose your view
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22. Visual approach
To presentation of content - especially with respect to data/info shared
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23. Experience prototype - Actionscript
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24. Attention /Critical reception
Where will this lead to?
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25. We are working on it !
Watch out for www.personamail.info
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26. Primary
User research, Brainstorming for ideas
Sketching, concepts, wireframes
Communication through Visual Story-telling
Pixel detail (Photoshop, Illustrator)
Secondary
Visual design
Prototyping (Actionscript)
My contribution in a team of 3
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