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Gmail has by far the work UX out of any of the popular applications I use. It's an eye sore.
by rsuelzer 11y ago
Gmail has by far the work UX out of any of the popular applications I use. It's an eye sore.
- gomox 11y agoI don't think GMail is pretty, but it's very functional. Good UX != visual beauty. As a result of a fairly recent job change, I have been forced into desktop IMAP clients again. I have to admit I have discovered a whole new level of appreciation for GMail. Just the fact that it actually runs filters server-side and it has a (conceptually speaking) equivalent application for mobile devices trumps everything else. You can actually get it do to what you want. The company I work for has a very heterogeneous systems landscape and I can say without much hesitation that GMail + Gcal's only serious alternative is Outlook. Everything else seems to me like a digital version of pen and paper.
- pyre 11y agoI think that IMAP-serverside filtering is possible: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter I haven't really looked into exactly what it's doing though (and I'm no expert on the IMAP spec).
- gomox 11y agoSeems like that is just a command-line version of an e-mail client filter: it connects to the server, runs a query, and moves stuff to folders. Based on my experience with the average IMAP server search performance, I wouldn't let my users use this if I was in control of the server.
- sssilver 11y agoI actually agree, if you mean the present Gmail. I referred to the original Gmail.
- agumonkey 11y agoGoogle had a nice distortion field. I recently tried Bing maps by accident and having a fast, light and smooth UI felt so good. Inertia and brand makes me still go to Google maps but I miss the old one. 2nd system effect is a damn curse.