How not to make good use of the preview pane

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Preview panes are everywhere. Perhaps we should call them preview pains. Outlook, Yahoo! Mail Beta, Windows Live Hotmail, Thunderbird and others all feature a small window next to the inbox offering a clipped view of your email.

There are dozens of articles now warning you about the need to design for these preview panes. But if you ever doubted why, Tom O'Leary has a nice analysis with screenshots of one marketing email that failed the preview pane test.

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