AOL May Have Invented Email's Next UI Paradigm

AOL ALTO, A NEW WEB-BASED EMAIL CLIENT, IS FILLED WITH GRAND IDEAS, INCLUDING A PINTEREST-LIKE SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING YOUR INBOX.

Alto does not require an AOL email address, but rather works with services such as Gmail and Yahoo.
By organizing email into novel and visual stacks, Alto’s UI feels clean and less cluttered than its competitors’ inboxes. Navigating stacks in Alto is simple, visual, and intuitive. Alto offers in-site tab navigation, meaning Alto tabs are kept within one browser tab, rather than needing to open up a slew of different windows on Chrome or Firefox to reference an email as you write one. 


Alto also offers real-time visual search, which categorizes results by emails, contacts, photos, and attachments to offer users immediate context. In the social stack, notifications are culled from Twitter, LinkedIn, Path, Facebook, and more, but Alto goes the extra mile to display contextual infographics.