Hi Mike, I'm a product manager at Dailymotion.com. We're certainly not the prettiest of the VSS, but neither are we the worst. As you can imagine, pushing through UX improvement on a site of our scale, with all the competing developments and back-end work, can be difficult. But we're trying.
I imagine your needs will be vastly different from that of the regular video sites. At the root of everything, of course, is the player and the player page. What you want users to be able to do with a video will vastly effect the complexity of the player page. Will they need to favorite? Simple enough. Comment? Add to a playlist? Group? Share? Email? Answers will depend upon what kind of videos you have. If they are instructional or meant as knowledge management/tutorial tools, allowing users to act upon or group their videos could be nice, but you could just as well make admin-level groups for certain thematics (setting up email and VPN; making day-off requests). If these are promotional or product videos, say, and ppl will need to download them for presentations, there's a whole other set of needs. Defining what sort of actions are available on/around a video will be an important bottom-level choice. From the top, that is, IA level, you will have a whole other set of issues. If there is an existing intranet with a respectably designed information architecture, I recommend you take tips from that and build your internal video portal to be analogous, or at least complementary. Tags alone are not the way to go, unless you at least define some preferred and/or required tags to act as a low-level category armature in the stead of more structured content buckets. Finally I think that, depending upon your needs, you may be better off looking towards sites that don't permit (or at least deprecate) commenting (NYTimes video, iPlayer, Hulu), to find cleaner, less bloated IX models. Good luck! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44376 ________________________________________________________________ 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
