Did you ever wonder why software you use outside work is simple and user-friendly – but lots of software at work is an utter nightmare? Well we did, and came to a decision: let’s make a consumer-style app for communicating (features like in Skype or Facebook) but design it for business users.
We’ll keep the good bits, like simplicity and ease of use, but ditch the business-inappropriate bits, like silly bright colors, bouncy sound effects and wacky usernames. (My friend is an Oxford professor, but his Skype name is a variant on ‘MrBean’. He doesn’t use it for work.)
So, we proudly announce… Unison for Outlook.
Outlook is already one of the better apps to use at work – it’s effective at what it does. But we made it better. Unison for Outlook is a plugin that gives you a contact list, free/busy status, IM, calls, videochat and shared ‘walls’ – directly inside Outlook.
The user interface is simple. We didn’t throw in tons of features and buttons. It’s just a hassle-free way to talk to your colleagues, with one mouse click. Rather than reading this, though, you should just go and try it out.
