AI hype is real
Giving users full control over how they want to dynamically sort their Inbox is exactly what AI was meant to do.
Siri can now understand the context behind your question and give the relevant information.
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Emails hit our inbox like a monsoon, pelting us with its automated messages from companies eager to claw for more attention. This has left all of us digital users with
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"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized."
The wealth of possibilities seem to be at our fingertips with AI. Is there a world where every email provider is using AI? Perhaps. It's up to us to dream up of a world where we can harness this technology for the betterment of our everyday life.
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A smart agent like Siri can understand that if you are looking for someone's birthday lost in your email, she'll also double check anything in regards to birth or anything similar. Note in this example, the prompt is to find Jessica's birthday and yet the emails that come back don't have the word birthday in them: just the right emails depending on the context.
Laying out several flows helped me understand where potential microinteractions could trigger, depending on what the user is choosing to do.
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Allow AI to specifically target folders and have AI create folders based on what it scans. Allow the user to sort with "natural language." *Need to refine the flow for sorting
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Enter 2024, where users are struggling to stay afloat and clear headed in a time of relentless email overload.
no real advanced features, performance issues with large inboxes
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In this example, Siri can determine an email's context (job applications) and can find 1) the emails surrounding a job 2) figure out which ones need a response 3) and weigh them based on the factors. This is a lot of heavy lifting that an actual assistant would be able to pull off and Siri is now one step closer to being your all-in-one assistant.
With dynamic sorting, Siri can help you accomplish things like weighing out different options for you.
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not free, learning curve to the whole interface, limited integration
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major email overload.
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With the rise of AI, more and more email providers are infusing automated ML functionality into the daily use of the app.
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User can mass delete entire folders of emails, sorted by AI.
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These microinteractions will help complement the core purpose of helping the user reduce their inbox to something more manageable.
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Analyse and design intuitive mail organization using AI that help users clear their email inbox with zero stress or pressure.
User can easily select entire folders or emails and drag them appropriately to where they should be forever considered.
The goal was to demystify the AI experience and Apple is very good at abstracting away engineering terms that don't make sense to the general public. With that in mind, I think it would make sense for AI features to be centered around their existing technology, namely Siri. Siri can live scan entire mailboxes, and not only that, but can continue refining the search options like shown here. Siri can sort emails by 1) company and include 2) random variables like "orders above $250".
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