Software shouldn't just work — it should feel like somewhere you want to stay > We talk about online places as spaces—Slack channels are “rooms,” Twitter a “public square”—but we don’t really think of them that way, and we even less design them that way. > Gmail, midnight, me looking up from the fluorescent screen to the sky outside my window—dark but open, a few thin clouds drifting past the treetops, the kind of depth that reminds you there’s air beyond the glass. By contrast, the inbox on my screen looked like a lab: white tiles, hard light, rows of cells, sterile and devoid of life. > > For Cora, the AI-enabled email assistant we’re building at Every, we wanted more of what was outside my window and less of what was glowing on my screen: Outside air, inside the app. A well-design app is a space that you don't want to leave and just want to sit there quietly and stare at, just like the nature.