Geary Design Notes

If you would like to help design Geary's user experience, check the list of needs-design tickets, choose one you are interested in, and dive right in! Feel free to ask question in the bug, or on the mailing list or IRC.

Design principals

Geary is a GNOME 3 email application for everyday people. Its guiding design principals are:

1. Don't assume advanced technical knowledge or proficiency
2. Do one thing and do it well
3. Desktop-specific is better than cross-platform

Resources

Existing design work includes the following:

• Research and design for GNOME Mail

• Some mockups exist in the wip/ux branch in git

• People typically use one of two basic email workflows: Pile or File. Geary should aim to cater for both.

• Other design work for Geary is listed below.