I'm willing to donate a FRIAM license of MyIdeaTree<http://www.myideatree.com>(drag and drop building of network graphs from links). I'd learn a ton about usability from that. The email / blog content would have to be located on the web somewhere.
Ron On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > Nick: could you do me a favor? After all the input, could you sorta play > "scenarios" or "prototypes"? > > These are common design practices that take an idea and actually mock it > up. Scenarios include "workflow" .. i.e. how the design is used on a > daily, weekly, and archive basis. Prototypes are a crude model of the > design. The Treo .. the first widespread PDA, started out life as blocks > of wood of various sizes carried around .. in pockets, purses, hands etc .. > to determine the appropriate size and form factor. It included paper for > "writing" (leading to Graffiti, the first touch writing trick) and "memory" > (the paper wound around the block of wood. > > Designers think that way and have huge success. > > I think you're on to something but it has to be taken out of the idea > realm into the tangible to make the next step. > > BTW: Fabio once said that much of the stuff on Friam should be a blog. > And a very early "electronic community", The Well, actually published some > of their stuff. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com>
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