My inbox is broken.

Not in an I-can’t-check-my-messages kind of way, but in a fundamental, inboxes-will-never-be-the-same-again kind of way.

Analysis of inbox traffic for 30 daysWith every birthday reminder, bill confirmation, new friend, direct message, password recovery, and mailing list, the content of our inboxes becomes less and less a means of communication and more and more a record of all we do online. Email is the lowest common denominator of digital identity. It’s our web keychain. It’s the catch-all of our online lives.

But if inboxes don’t fundamentally change in order to adapt to their new role as the keeper of myriad transactions across the entire web, they’ll be obsolete.

This is something that I have been thinking for a long time. There is so much intelligence that can be built into the email client. The Email client is completly aware of an indivisuals digital identity, travel, bank statements, newsletters etc. I think is there is so much potential for innovation.

“Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

Excellent summary with examples of how to create awesome looking designs. The article covers areas like:

• Spacing
• Pixel Perfect Detail
• Well thought out Typography
• Organization of Elements
• Subtlety
• Colour
• Uniqueness

A must read for any Visual Designer.

Brilliant move by a local BMW dealer in responding to a national Audi ad. Audi’s 2009 A4 ad on the left side of the street says “Your move, BMW.” Santa Monica BMW comes back with an M3 ad across the street that says “Checkmate.” Now that’s advertising.

What do you do if you’re Audi?

Gotta Love it!

Reichenstein argues that tabs were a good solution for an earlier age of the Internet, when users hardly ever had more than ten tabs open at any given time. Now, however, as browsers are slowly turning into operating systems, a new paradigm for organizing this information has become necessary.

The current generation of browsers does a decent job when it comes to keeping a current browser session organized, but Reichenstein wants to create a system that structures the browser more like a mutimedia file system. He proposes a new interface that looks more like iTunes than today's Firefox, with folders, libraries, and bookmarks in a sidebar.

Interesting Idea this. Also, dont forget to check out the Tree Tabs addon for firefox, I just installed it and loving it so far!