10 Systems: Part II- “Visual Email Spam” (2014)
10. Forgetting to look at emails
Problem: I seem to have developed a spam filter in my head, allowing me to glaze over emails I receive that do not particularly pertain to me. Although this is usually beneficial, I occasionally miss emails that were important because I did not read them thoroughly.
Solution: I decided to spend a day analyzing the text of every email I received. (Only 6 in total). I opened the email, read it, found the parts of the text that stood out to me as the most important and pulled them aside. I personally prefer when ideas are expressed visually, so I decided to create a visual representation of each email. I googled the key phrases in the text, pulled the results off of google images, and collaged the images together in photoshop to create a visual version of the email. I then replied to the email with this image.