[dba-Tech] Gmail - is there a preview pane option?

I think the guys who write these interfaces probably don't use them and they 
fail to test them adequately. I just reviewed some software for an article, 
and I was very surprised with the interfaces for a couple of them. They 
looked great, but they weren't particularly intuitive... it took me a little 
time to figure them out. Nothing difficult or anything, just basic stuff --  
it shouldn't be like that. In today's Windows/Apple dominated world, we 
should look at the screen and have few questions.

Designers should stop trying to recreate the way we think and work. :(

Susan H.


> Hi Susan
>
> You are not alone.
>
> I just can't get why an organisation of the capabilities of Google can't 
> put together a decent design. I realise the goal was and probably still is 
> to present some sort of a rudimentary design but it just doesn't work 
> anymore.
>
> At the same time Microsoft continues to improve their Live/Hotmail with 
> nice integration with SkyDrive and Bing.
>