On 10/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Paulson</b> <<a href="mailto:robin.paulson@gmail.com">robin.paulson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 19/10/2007, Thomas Wood <<a href="mailto:thomas@openedhand.com">thomas@openedhand.com</a>> wrote:<br>> OK, so we have a couple of user requirements:<br>><br>> * New Message<br>> * Inbox, Drafts, Outbox and Sent folders
<br>> * Quick Messages (Templates)<br>> * Preferences (delivery reports, save sent, others?)<br><br>personally, i would do away with the inbox/drafts/outbox/sent<br>paradigm, it dates from when we all had piles of paper sat on our
<br>desks, and disrupts the flow of a conversation. numerous times i've<br>had people reply to a question, have forgotten what the question was<br>and had to go dig in the sent folder to understand the context of<br>their reply
<br><br>gmail got it right when they introduced threaded e-mail as the default<br>way of displaying messages, and iirc, the jesusphone does similar with<br>texts.<br><br>by all means allow the user to display sent and received messages
<br>separately if they want, but the default imo should be to put them all<br>together<br><br></blockquote></div>Hey. Threads sounds idea good idea to me. I want to say that someone recently started doing this for text messages (iPhone?), except they made it to act more like an IM conversation (but it was a thread none of the less).
<br><br>As for the lack of main menu's. Is there any screen shots to demonstrate how this works? I realize that the point is to make everything "Finger" accessible, which can be done with a main menu (if you ask me) or not. I'm just interested in how you get to where you want to go as quick as possible. The only thing I can think of is the messaging applications "home" screen being the inbox/outbox/thread view, which options for preferences and new message somewhere (button on the bottom?).
<br><br>-Jon<br><br><br>