Reblogged from Amit Gupta likes you!
Original: tumblr of Sebastian Waters
Persona is a minimal E-Mail Client Prototype designed by Marco Triverio, Harsha Vardhan Ramesh Babu, Ali Seçkin Karayol at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.
I very rarely watch videos on Tumblr, or even online in general. But this was beautiful, and I’m glad I watched it. Thanks for posting it, Sebastian!
I’ve been debating building a client like this for about a year, but keep focusing on smaller projects. Persona is nearly exactly what I was thinking of, but way more cleanly designed than anything I’ve been able to sketch out on napkins.
Sparrow, another minimalist email client, often comes up whenever I discuss email. I’ve always felt Sparrow was simple, but only because it threw out features, not because it rethought what email should be like.
Email sucks. We all hate it. Focusing on people, and the sender’s relation/value to the receiver is really the only way out of the mess that email has become.
