I have a question about everyone's "gorilla arm" concern. Is web browsing (the primary thing we are talking about here) a sovereign activity like say composition? Or let me be more precise, unlike say photoshop which is about 90% mouse control, does web browsing really require the same percentage of "flex" time? Isn't there quite a bit of rest moments when using a web browser. For example, I have not touched my mouse once since the moment I focused on this text area to type, yet I'm in a web browser, no?
I often feel that people who are concerned about the ergonomics of it all are well decontextualizing the action and making a generalization. Putting that aside for a moment. Why is it that this group is so freakin' negative? Am I the only person who sees the possibilities and wants to dig deeper into those? Sometimes (and maybe this was Andrei's point about Cuil) when doing concept work like this (not that Cuil was a concept, but this surely is), it is probably a better process to dig out the positive elements instead of jumping straight into negativity. Here's why: 1) Negativity breeds judgement which stifles conversation. 2) We will loose the positive nuggets of this exploration, meaning we loose the hope of building, incorporating, assimilating even the smallest aspects of positive contribution. So what did I like? 1) The attempt to re-think the organization of "what is important to me?" (avoiding the use of the term favorite, or bookmark) 2) How collaboration as a scenario was done. I often struggle w/ "web co-browsing" as a scenario, but I know it happens all the time. Mostly between my wife and I when I'm at work and she is at home. I think the scenario they portrayed was friendly and realistic and their solutions were intriguing. 3) The manipulation, and objectification of any and all data units/collections/representations. This was probably the biggest thing there and contributed to a big useful area of collaboration in the business stting. I'm going to move right on to the next segment (take a look if you haven't). It's the mobile setting: 1) Location Base Services mashed with "personal cloud". I thought this was nicely done including the privacy components. 2) When to/how to share amongst groups of individuals and the means for declaring those groups was really well done. 3) I loved the concept of "what's along my path" from pt starting to point ending. That "context" is not commonly understood in most LBS applications. It is mostly radius derived, and not path derived. 4) Symmetry between the UI in the desktop and the mobile device. I'm all for critique as much as the next guy. It is one of the defining practices of design, but folks, please ... can we move from negativity to constructive criticism, please? BTW, constructive criticism usually only works in juxtaposition with appreciation. I'd also be curious as to the references some people are implying to the redundancy, or co-opting of other's ideas. I'd love some pointers, personally. BTW, building off of other people's ideas and recreating a new whole is one of the best definitions of innovation I have seen. And if ya look at the history of Apple, you can see that is exactly what they've done. Again, Kudos to the AP team. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31824 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
