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End-to-end encrypted
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Skiff Mail interface

End-to-end encrypted workspaces bringing freedom to the internet

Skiff strives to bring freedom to the internet by giving users the power of privacy in their personal workspaces. At Skiff I worked on all four apps: Mail, Calendar, Pages and Drive, across web and mobile (iOS/Android) devices. With the team, we achieved 2 million users and a high of 46,000+ DAU. Skiff was acquired by Notion in February of 2024.

Design Team

Joseph Zhang (Product Designer)

Jason Ginsberg (CTO / Design Manager)

Sunny Li (FE Engineering)

Skiff workspace overview

Creating the best email experience

Skiff Mail interface

New feature to allow Skiff users to automatically forward their mail to other apps. Connecting users to external platforms.

Mail forwarding feature

Adding support for PGP encryption to expand our privacy features.

Revamping our mobile app

We released a native mobile app for our Skiff Drive app in November of 2023. I worked on redesigning the mobile experience from the ground up.

Skiff Drive mobile app
Skiff Drive mobile redesign

The new mobile app prioritized better separation between personal/shared files, easily accessing recent files, and introducing a new grid view.

Mobile app file organization

Redesigning each of the different type of file thumbnails.

File thumbnails redesign

Designed screens for every case - searching, file previews, selected states, new folder creation and more.

Mobile app screens

Updated App store assets for the new Drive app.

App store assets

Introduced grid view into our web application to match the new mobile thumbnails.

Making Pages mobile-friendly

Also redesigned the Skiff Pages app to be mobile-friendly. This included prioritizing creating quick notes, accessing recent files, and improving viewing/adding comments.

Skiff Pages mobile app

An important feature is making sure the user can see a preview of the content of the Page in both a list and grid view.

Pages preview feature

Improved Skiff Pages comments drawer.

Pushing the Calendar experience

Skiff Calendar monthly view

One of Skiff's top requested feature was monthly view. Designed new components to account for monthly view on both web and mobile sizes. Released in September of 2023. Future versions of the designs also accounted for multi-calendar views.

Calendar weather tracker concept

Concept designs that included a weather tracker, right in your calendar app.