Daniel, I'm glad you brought up the micro-interaction of "auto-save" in Gmail.
Consider the following: http://skitch.com/jasonrobb/b5nsy/active-passive-innovation In Gmail for instance, there are some features that are obvious. The undo button is an obvious innovation, whereas the auto-save feature is more of a passive innovation since you probably wouldn't notice it's there. It's almost a commodity now. Dave, the light bulb that Edison invented was an innovation on the light bulb that Joseph Swan started working on some 30 years earlier. (And 20 people had tried to invent the light bulb before those two.) But Edison made it economically viable. Jason R. -- Jason Robb Experience Design & Implementation http://jasonrobb.com http://uxboston.com http://uiscraps.tumblr.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44405 ________________________________________________________________ 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
