Hi Andrew - not snarky at all. I felt sure something was probably happening somewhere, but I hadn't see it.
The hardest part, as I see it, is moving from a kind of shared knowledge environment, like a wiki/whiteboard, into something more akin to the kind of versioning that open-source development projects commonly used. As people have mentioned before, the versioning needs to not lose or kill off half-formed ideas but have some way of incorporating them until they're further developed and ready to be more clearly specified to a point where they're useful for, well, for who? That's also a question - developers? Users? Other designers? Or it may be that the kind of versioning mindset we're used to seeing in software development projects *isn't* the right way to go about an open-source ux/ixd process. I think it's worth us all thinking broader and drawing upon other ways of working. Music making is one thing that comes to mind here. I'm sure there are others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38371 ________________________________________________________________ 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
