Great Moments by Design - Mail.app
I have a confession to make. As I’ve mentioned before, I change my default browser only slightly less than my socks. Today I’ll add default email clients to this list.
I’m a GMail user—have been since I first got my account. But ever since starting to use a Mac, I’ve often switched between using the GMail web interface and OS X’s Mail.app. And since upgrading to Leopard, this chore has gotten so much easier.
With the current version of Mail, one extremely handy feature has been added. When you are adding a new account in Mail’s preferences, there is an option to automatically setup your account, as seen here:
How much nicer is this as opposed to trying to remember all the pop, imap and smtp information for GMail accounts? The fact that Apple is willing to keep track of settings for a third party account is great in itself. Adding this functionality to one of their own applications is a great design decision.
It just makes a tedious process easier for the end user. That’s great design.
