Okay, time to out ourselves :-). I'm the lead designer/architect for the new infrastructre initiative. Right now we have deliverables at all levels, from personas down to page mockups. There are obviously lots of lines to color in between, but at the moment we've focused on events management/calendar, member profiles, and local sites (which I'm starting to think of as local.ixda.org-- think instead of a [EMAIL PROTECTED], we gve out [EMAIL PROTECTED], with local.ixda.org/sf, or local.ixda.org/sanfrancisco as the landing URL).
I like the idea of crowdsourcing the design of this puppy. Suggestions on how to manage the process? Two challenges I see: - Of all proejcts with a self-referential design element, this one kinda takes the cake :-). - The temptation/risk of falling into a design-by-committee trap is high - Being designers, we could iterate and iterate until, like, the end of days If we went with a crowdsourced model for the design, I'd propose going with the curated-crowdsourcing that Mozilla adopts. They have a public free-for-all tree, but the features that make it into Firefox, etc. have been cherry-picked by an architect and integrated into the codebase. This brings me to a third challenge: - We need to translate Open Source, a developer-rooted concept, into a model for designing a wide-ranging product >From the very beginning it's been our intention to start with a "kernel" or two (thanx, Dave) and grow the system from there, rather than roll out a huge monolith. To that end, we could make this process manageable by cutting it into bite-sized pieces, front-loading it with our ideas on how it should work. Much like developers have "unit tests" that have to pass before code is even considered, we could have design elements pass some sort of check before being submitted (a design crit? usability tests for larger parts?). As features are submitted, a curator can make the call on whether or not they make it into the live "build." Fair? Okay, here's the first crowdsourced task: Let's see examples of successful crowdsource-designed projects. Case studies would be *great*. Or do any exist? Are we on the bleeding edge of a process here? Peace, love, and "boo!"-tstrapped movements, - Nasir P.S. A start: http://www.steinbock.org/blog/2008/02/20/kluster/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
