Hi Nikhil, The istme project is really interesting, but I think the "stories and venues" metaphor is a little short for the complexity of today. I guess the power of the next metaphor have to be in the "task" and "relations" between people and documents. For instance you have to be able to work the same way with all documents related to a project, or access quickly all documents related to a person. That's failing today.
@Jeff Garbers You are right saying we reached our QWERTY point. But the current metaphor is limited, for instance: when you want to access all documents related with a project, including: emails, texts, photos, databases, etc; all that "reside" in a different application and you have to jump from a work flow to another to get things done. And mostly these work flows are not even similar at all. The truth is we are so used to it that we don't notice that, but step back a minute and you will realize how bad the current metaphor is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42903 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
