Friday, 20 September 2013

MINI CHALLENGE 1:  References

Our source of inspiration and reference is from the page http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/meet i.e. ,The new Microsoft Windows 8 "A better way to work and play"... With its new large icons and cross interface across smartphones, tablets and PCs, the new Windows version is probably the most user-friendly yet. Its less cluttered, faster, easier to cycle between apps, and simple. And since the primary problem with emails is information overload, we thought what better than to design the UI in the principles of Microsoft's large icons. Since, to reduce the overload, we will need to organize and synchronize between multiple folders, we also need to be able to cycle between them with ease.

Another idea, to contain no pop-ups or advertisements in the UI, originates from a discussion between Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin in the movie 'The Social Networks'. As they aptly pointed out, the users want to view their mails, and complete their work, not view advertisements!

Cheers to the these pioneers!

Team SNALK

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