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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)

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• 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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