Hi, > I think more thought should be put into tools and > processes, so design experimentation can be accelerated and opened up to > more people.
that's exactly why i am doing this unity web implementation. just at the moment i have more fun doing mockups than continuing add more elements of unity. but give me some time ... David Reichling 2011/3/16 Thorsten Wilms <t...@freenet.de>: > On 03/16/2011 02:21 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 09:01:59 am Thorsten Wilms wrote: > >>> Sometimes the problem may be certain users stubbornness rather than >>> anything else, especially if you design for the long term. So the answer >>> may have to be wrapped up in a strategy to "sell" it. >> >> It depends on how important your current user base is to you. >> Particularly >> when there are alternatives available, such radical restructuring is more >> likely to result in existing users leaving than them immediately jumping >> to >> the new paradigm (see KDE 4.0 for example). It may be that you'll get >> them >> back in the long run, but many will be gone for good. > > That's exactly why I mentioned strategy. To expand, you would ideally design > where you want to end up (caveat: any "end" will only be a step, once you > are there or past it), then determine how there may be a transition and how > to communicate the benefits. > > *Luckily*, the implementation effort tends to be so huge, that you have to > go step by step, anyway. I think more thought should be put into tools and > processes, so design experimentation can be accelerated and opened up to > more people. Everyone who hasn't yet, should take a good look at a Smalltalk > implementation like Pharo. If we could have that level of malleability at > runtime, without being trapped in an image file ... > > > -- > Thorsten Wilms > > thorwil's design for free software: > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp