Email is currently our digital home.
- Email is currently our digital home.
- It's on someone else's turf: the email service provider.
- But you can only read or send.
- You can't have interactive stateful UIs for emails.
- The UI for an email is whatever the sender chose to say at the time of sending.
- It's likely the same thing they sent to a whole audience, not just you.
- What if each email and task could have the UI you wanted?
- If a traditional email client were to make specialized UIs for specific classes of tasks, they'd miss most kinds of tasks.
- Tasks that don't have an audience of, say, 10M users aren't worth the email client company assigning a PM and a handful of engineers to build.
- They're below the Coasian Floor.
- The interfaces we use today are limited by the imagination of some PM working at the company that built the app.[pj]
- Imagine a system isn't even limited by your imagination but by the imagination of everyone using the system.[pk]