On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:47 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Each feature should be treated as a different application, like google, > gmail, google maps, etc... >
I think there is much to be inspired by in Google's various apps, including their clean UIs, however the fact that they are separate largely isolated applications isn't one of them. I think Facebook is a better (although also imperfect) source of inspiration here. Also Facebook also has the paradigm of being connected to people, and has created metaphors around this that most people now understand intuitively. Its always better to piggy-back on metaphors people already understand, rather than trying to introduce new ones. I don't want to have to learn or remember that "FreeTalk" is the forums tab, it should just be called "Forums". I don't want to have to remember that "Fproxy" is where I browse websites, it should be called something like "Browse Websites". In other words, we shouldn't give names to different facets of Freenet that people will have to learn, they should be named descriptively, and should be seamlessly integrated, rather than treated as a series of separate applications. I would really like to see some mockups too - now that GWT Designer<http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tools/gwtdesigner/index.html>has been made freely available by Google, it should be very easy for people to throw together some mockups for us to discuss and get our teeth into. Ian. -- Ian Clarke CEO, SenseArray Email: [email protected] Ph: +1 512 422 3588
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