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‘This is (Michael Angle’s) very basic set of shapes for making wireframes (low-fidelity web page schematics) in OmniGraffle ‘
Author: Leisa Reichelt
links for 25 June 2007 – Asshole Driven Development
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Others say it’s because software people like making things up and can’t help themselves. Well I say this: if we’re going to have dozens of models we may as well have some that are honest, however cynical, to what’s really going on much of the time
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The following questions should be clearly answered before you start; what is the purpose of the intranet / portal? what is the business benefit of the feature? how will effectiveness be measured?
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But there is far more opportunity over the long term for new tools that serve the core of a social network, and scaled laboratories such as Wikipedia to explore the Wisdom of Wikis.
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Do not pass judgment on ideas until the completion of the brainstorming session. Do not suggest that an idea won’t work or that it has negative side-effects. All ideas are potentially good so don’t judge them until afterwards.
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So what does doing agile business mean for FastCompany.com? Vision, release, test, iterate. Repeat. Quickly.
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How to use Visio for rapid prototyping – now with scrolling pages and sketchy interface widgets
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Invotrak helps you get your invoices under control. No fees or hassles.
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The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface
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“Are you my friend? Yes or no?†This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites.
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The fact that we don’t understand what value others get from social web apps is part of the paradigm of social software. …What is important to their social life will almost certainly be unimportant to us because we have our own to worry about.
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Instead of the discourse of smooth, distinction-obliterating, disempowering seamlessness … of ubiquitous information processing systems, Weiser wanted to offer users ways to reach into and configure the systems they encountered…
What we need, right, is a big volume control for Ambient Intimacy
If you’re designing a social application at the moment, think about how you can be quiet.
This is just one of a million pleas from socially networked people everywhere who are going to great efforts to manage the noise that their networked applications are generating at times when they really need some quiet time to focus.
Some systems (ahem, FaceBook) can be VERY noisy and make the process of quietening more difficult than it needs to be.
Others seem simpler, but the lack of ‘friends management’ tools mean that you can be a lot noisier than perhaps you’d like to be.
But – perhaps the biggest challenge of all is that there are soooo many different systems we need to dial down – just when you think you’ve got them all, something else sneaks through to interrupt you.
Imagine if there was one panel somewhere that all of your noisy applications could hook into and then a big volume control that you can adjust based on how available you are to your network. (Is there some kind of a microformat we can make for this Jeremy?)
So when you’re super busy and you need to focus, you can, with minimal effort, dial down the noise to allow you to concentrate. And when you’re hanging out and are completely open to connections – dial it back up again.
Kind of like how you need different levels and types of ambient noise to match various activities in your day. (In my my presentation on Ambient Intimacy at Reboot I suggested an important challenge for ‘social designers’ was to think more about how to design for ambience in social applications).
In the meantime… until we get this great big volume control… let’s those of us who are designing social applications be thoughtful about this particular user requirement. Let’s make sure it’s easy for our users to quieten us down, and then pump us back up again.
Otherwise they’ll keep banging on about this attention scarcity thing even more and switch us off altogether.
links for 24 June 2007 – The world’s most hated blogger
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The concept is sometimes called “irritainment,” defined as: “Entertainment and media spectacles that are both annoying and compulsively watchable.” – How have I missed this for so long?! :)