Human interface of The Bat! 4.0 mail client

29th January, 2008

Artem Gorbunov Design Bureau developed the interface for the fourth version of The Bat! mail client.

Millions of people rely on mail clients every day. Mail should be intuitive and accessible to all.

The paranoid do-it-all toolbar is no more:

The new Bat is stripped, reinvented and wrapped up in the Vista skin.

Organizing

The Bat! stores message history for every correspondent, both people and companies, under a common domain name.

Users access the entire message history with a single click.

In message view, a new slider smoothly opens up images, documents and archive contents:

Reply draft goes under the original message in the inbox and gets edited in the preview window.

Drafts go both to the inbox and the drafts folder.

No more saving documents. All drafts are saved automatically, with unlimited undo.

Last cursor position is remembered when navigating around the message list.

		Finding
		Finding messages while typing the request is something Windows users have been waiting for a very long time. The results are instantly filtered by folders, tags and message attributes.		Tags replace all kinds of message flags (the previous version had about 10 kinds)