GUI for a webmail application

**calande** · 02-18-2008, 05:49 PM

Hello guys,

I'm working in a small team and we're developing a webmail application. I'm about to create the GUI and I'd like to do a quick brainstorm here

Do you like current webmail GUIs? Could you imagine the webmail interface of your dreams? How would it be?

Ok, I'm going to help you, please have a look at these webmail GUIs:

What do you like in these GUIs, and what don't you like? What about mixing the forum GUI and the webmail GUI? Sort of having a forum interface but to read mails? Forums and webmail have a lot of similarities after all... I'm just thinking at loud here

Please let me know your opinion and suggestions
Thanks.

**jamestl2** · 02-19-2008, 01:26 AM

To me, most webmail GUI's are the same. But these are the reasons why I use my current application over the others:

The text is nice and large, I'm not squinting when I read it.
There aren't 100 navmenus to find, store, retrieve, etc. mail. All the options are in one place, and no duplicate icons everywhere
One more thing I would like is the option to organize which emails arrive where. For example, if ther was a Personal Inbox, Business Inbox, etc. I'd find it very useful so I'm not putting the letters into different folders later.

my 2c

**calande** · 02-19-2008, 06:46 PM

Thanks, definitely good ideas.

**ceuyan** · 02-19-2008, 07:38 PM

i really like gmails gui.. looks simple and i really like the threaded emails

**calande** · 02-20-2008, 09:04 PM

Yeah, Google almost always get it right