Presentations about email

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Mathew Patterson — Delivering user experience to the inbox: designing for email

• In: Resources
• By: Maxine
• March 10, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Direc­tions User Expe­ri­ence, Mel­bourne Town Hall, May 16 2008.

So you’ve designed a fan­tas­tic web­site for your client, tested in all the major browsers and every­thing looks great. Now they want to send an email newslet­ter to all their cus­tomers, using the new design.

No prob­lem right? Just need to test in Out­look 07, and 06. Yahoo and Hot­mail too, of course. Oh, and Gmail, Lotus Notes, AOL…Of course, the design may not work that well for an email any­way, and isn’t there some kind of anti-​​spam laws?

Like it or not, HTML email is here to stay and the respon­si­bil­ity for doing it right belongs to web design­ers. Learn how to plan, design and build an email newslet­ter that will pro­vide a great user expe­ri­ence to the recip­i­ents, and great value to your clients.

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Gina Trapani — Better Gmail: How Google Opened Gmail’s Web Interface to Any Developer Who Cares (And Why You Should)

• In: Resources
• By: jessie
• February 12, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Direc­tions North, Van­cou­ver Canada, Jan­u­ary 30 2008.

Last year, Google released an exper­i­men­tal Grease­mon­key API for Gmail: cod­ing hooks that let any­one add CSS and Javascript to Gmail that enhances how it looks and behaves. Why would you want to do this? Why wouldn’t you? Hear how Google’s using Grease­mon­key to dis­trib­ute Gmail devel­op­ment amongst inde­pen­dent web devel­op­ers – and how those devel­op­ers are inte­grat­ing their own prod­uct into Gmail — result­ing in a Bet­ter Gmail for everyone.

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