Tuesday, 21 October 2008

E-Mail

Email is a text based exchange of Electronic Mail between computers and users.


Design -
The design is usually pretty basic making it easier for the users to find their way around.

Usability - E-Mail is one of the easiest form's of communication between people , everythings set up well leaving the options available to the user (new mail, deleted mail, junk box etc.) easy to find and utilize.

Navigation - Its easy to navigate from page to page (inbox, outbox etc) in many E-Mail applications such as Hotmail and Googlemail.

Use of Multimedia - Its easy to attach pictures, music, video and compressed/zipped files to an e-mail and send them to your contacts.

Collaboration - People can collaborate with E-Mail through things like chain mail and passing on important information in workplaces to employee's etc., this is fairly easy to do.

Links -
Their are links to take you to your inbox, properties, sign in/out, sent mail, the providers website etc. all easy to find.

Quality of Information - The quality of information is entirely dependent on what the user wants to type/send.

Topicality - Topic choice is up to the user sending the mail.

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