Google Inbox

Michael Leggett says I founded Google Inbox with Keith Coleman and lead design for 4 years while also managing the Gmail Design Team. The project was an amazing exploration of managing information and communication across many products. In 2012, Sundar Pichai asked us to narrow our focus to email.

• and: What if we had one app that let us consume, organize, create, and share across the many platforms and data types. That was the original vision of Google Inbox (we had up to 16 data types in it at one point) but that vision got killed before it launched. I still believe in it.
• aka Google's Universal Inbox
• in my mind this connects to mess of (2021-08-28) A Decade And A Half Of Instability The History Of Google Messaging Apps

Instead launched Oct'2014 as Inbox by Gmail (and killed 2019). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbox_by_Gmail (gmail)