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Obsolete?: A World After E-mail

Event SXSW Interactive 2009
Format Panel
Organizer Tim Hwang – ROFLCon
Description Email is a massive time suck, efficiency-draining, and a creativity killer. Ironically, it's also the dominant form of online communication. Can we design a better mousetrap? This panel will assemble a group of productivity experts and innovative developers to examine trends and envision the world after email.
Questions
Answered
  1. What are the largest current sources of efficiency loss in email?
  2. What HAS worked for email in the past? Where does it succeed?
  3. What are design features that might be used to optimize email and eliminate these existing issues?
  4. What should be the aims of new email interface design?
  5. Is the problem with email one of interface design, or of human organizational design?
  6. Is there a generational gap in the way people use email, how might this be leveraged for better future designs?
  7. How will the changing device market create new possibilities for online communication?
  8. Should email be augmented, or replaced with something entirely new?
  9. Will email ever go entirely obsolete (i.e. largely disappear from the online landscape)?
  10. What might email eventually be replaced by, if anything at all?
Level Intermediate
Category Web / Interface Design
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