1 Synopsis

Target Subject #* / Title	207 *-3D Email Client
Concept	User-Active and Operation-Less
Name	BlackGoat
Description	This mailer application, BlackGoat?, is based on LG3D?. BlackGoat? aspires to be the Number ONE 3D E-Mail client to break the 2D-ness of the current mailer environment and connect the current mail environment to real world while LG3D? intends to break the 20 years 2D-ness of the current desktop environment and the way the desktop environment evolves.
Approach	At present, almost all E-Mail clients are user-passive and operation-full applications because they are jsut 2D text-based applications. For instance, vexations of reaind lots of newly arriving messages, bother of turning over operation and weariness of unabling to take memos. BlackGoat provides users with 3D user-active and operation-less features to solve these problems. In addition, by lots LG3D? of features applied, BlackGoat? realize utilities for animated user feedback.

Fig 1

2 Deliverables

A list of deliverables are below.

Deliverables	Discription
GUI Gound Design	Base GUI designs which can be drawnby hand. LG3D? enables to make applications 3-dimensional, so the designs can bedrawn from various aspects.
Use Case	After getting fixated on the GUI ground design, development use case senarios.
Class Digram	All class diagrams regarding mail pop, drawing texture, display mails.
Implementation	All this 3D Mailer application source codes.

3 Prototype GUI Design

Part	Discription
A	The seletected message folder from message folders. Messages are directly proportional to how many messages are stacked in the folder.
B	A group of message folders. The cylinder will be replaced by letter box. The 2 blackgoat images will be buttons to boot configure panels. In these panels, mail server name, user name, user password and etc are set.
C	Message write and read field. In the case of reading messages, displays not only each message but also a list of headers, "from", "subject" and "date".

4 Features' Explanation

All images shown below are prototype BlackGoat^?'s snap shots.
Note that NOT all features have been implemented completely yet.

4.1

Feature#1	Volume and Color
Description	Easy way to know intuitively how many messages have arrived by expressing the message bundle. Also understand intuitively which messages are important by changing the message color every level of importance.

Fig 4.1

4.2

Feature#2	Reading Frequency
Description	The more we read messages, the more the message's appearance get tired-looking with changing the texture. This shows one of the real world phenomena , which the more we use paper, the more paper get tired-looking. In doing so, we can figure easily that the message users read many times are important and the messages users rarely read are not important.

Fig 4.2

4.3

Feature#3	Turn Over
Description	Easy way to flip messages to Next/Prev with mouse gestures. With traditional E-mail clients, users have to click Next/Prev buttons to read next or previous messages after moving mouse cursor to the buttons' position. But this mouse gesture feature help users read Next/Prev messages with less effort.

Fig 4.3

4.4

Feature#4	Watermark
Description	With using mouse gesture (Feature #3), users can read just the next or previous message easily. But users often want to jump 2 or more than 2 messages and read them. In this case, this feature would be a big help. With tinging the top message's transparency by wheeling the mouse wheel, users can get reading a list of message's headers at a dash.

Fig 4.4

4.5

Feature#5	Simple Message Reply/Forward
Description	When editing reply/forward messages, flip over the message and write text messages behind.

Fig 4.5

4.6

Feature#6	Sort
Description	Sort by clicking the aspect of the message folder. Sort order depends on folder's aspect, one aspect means sort by date, the other aspect means sort by postit. For instance, the cube folder has 6 aspects so users can sort messages stacked in the folder in 6 ways.

Fig 4.6

4.7

Feature#7	Doodle
Description	With dragging mouse button, this feature enables users to take notes and do marking - doodle - while it is almost impossible to do so intraditional E-Mail clients. What is more, enables users to search doodles - Doodle Search will come true!!

Fig 4.7

4.8

Feature#8	Scroll
Description	when message is longer, the message may not fit the fixed display size. This scroll feature solves this problem to express messages as banderroll in a 3D way. The difference between 2D scroll and 3D scroll is whether there is paper thickness like feature #1.

Fig 4.8

4.9

Feature#9	Postit
Description	Put a postit on each mail if we want. Postits intuitively afford us where mails we're interested in are..

Fig 4.9

4.10

Bonus	Cartoon-like Image
Description	Besides features above, there are lots of endearing images.

5 Schedule

Schedule	Work
July 1st week	Feature#1 - Volume and Color, Feature#2 - Reading Frequency
July 2nd week	Feature#3 - Turn Over, Feature#4 - Watermark, Feature#9 - Postit
July 3rd week	Feature#5 - Simple Message Reply/Forward, Feature#6 - Sort
July 4th week	Feature#5 - Simple Message Reply/Forward, Feature#6 - Sort
August 1st week	Feature#5- Simple Message Reply/Forward, Feature#7 - Doodle
August 2nd week	Feature#7 - Doodle, Feature#8 - Scroll
August 3rd week	Feature#7 - Doodle, Feature#8 - Scroll
August 4th week	testing and debugging