Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating contact environments. In one implementation, a computing system presents a view of a contact environment comprising a canvas and a plurality of contacts arranged on the canvas. Responsive to a plurality of inclusion gestures, each gestures indicative of an intention to include a different one of the plurality of contacts in an option group, the computing system identifies which of the plurality of contacts to include in the option group. The computing system presents a modified view of the contact environment comprising a plurality of included contacts identified in response to the plurality of inclusion gestures.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating conversation environments. In an implementation, a view of a conversation environment is presented that includes a conversation component within which to present communications exchanged during a conversation between a participants in the conversation. In response to a participant list gesture, the view is modified to include a list component presented over a portion of the conversation component. The list component may include contacts associated with the participants in the conversation. In response to a contact gesture corresponding to one of the contacts, the view is modified again to replace the list component with a contact component associated with the one of the contacts. In some implementations the view is a single window view within which the components are arranged.