New GetAnAccount UI.

Since we released the GetAnAccount addon, we’ve had a lot of feedback. Many of the people who commented were looking for the option of getting an ad-supported account instead of paying for email access. We were always planning on integrating ad-supported services, as soon as we could, but of course, doing this required a redesign.

One important note before we get to the good stuff: I’ve used GMail soley as an example of a well-known ad-supported email provider here. We may or may not be partnering with them, and you should not take these screenshots as proof of our intentions one way or another.

As you can see from this first mockup, the initial view makes it much more obvious that you don’t need to create a new account just to use Thunderbird.

If you click in the bottom half, it expands up to make it more obvious that that’s what you want to do, and to allow us to display more information (although we don’t have any extra information to display there yet.

On the other hand, if you click on the top, we do have more information that you probably want to see before continuing on.

And this is something like what we hope to show you when the results have been returned. (Note: the Terms of Service, Existing Account, and Do It Later buttons are still there, but have been scrolled off the bottom of the dialog in this mockup.)

And finally, once you pick one of the providers, we expand that list to show you all of the results for that provider.

Feedback, as always, is welcome, either here or in the forum.