3 posts tagged “ux”
Another of my forays into the UX of User Generated Content can be found here. That's right, it's a wiki. If you have any interest in toy cameras, join! But, um, realize that at this point I've only started roughing out a content structure. It's sooo not in any state of done-ness...as if wikis are ever "done", but you know what I mean.
So, I have a Livejournal where mostly I post the mundane details of my workouts. Why? Because I need some pseudo-public accountability and someone who likes to see those details reads my LJ for them (though he's been reading for *years*, he's never bothered to join...though he did randomly comment once). And I have a professional blog of sorts. And even though I haven't updated it in months, there are still plenty of things sitting on the back burner waiting to go up.
Given the existence of those two, why am I considering resurrecting this? Mostly because I've reached a place on my LJ where I'm not all that interested in sharing personal stuff--too many former friends and whatnot still lurk around that place. And also because I've found that in order to do my job, I have to not only maintain a presence in various online communities, but I have to be actively exploring and playing with the tools. (If you have even an inkling of an idea of how many UGC/community/socially focused sites there are out there these days, then yes, this is absolutely as time-consumiing as it sounds.)
And now, I'm off to poke at the Ning community that I've ignored for months.
Like anyone who has had to sit through presentations, training sessions, or talks at professional conferences, I have developed what I consider a healthy hate of Powerpoint. And certainly in my many past roles as a project manager, ui designer, usability evangelist, and information architect I've trotted out a few Powerpoint presentation of my own...though I have to admit that I've apologized more than once to my audience for perpetrating such crimes against them.
When I ran across the following clip on YouTube, I nearly creamed myself. Fuck nearly. I totally creamed myself.
This is how it should be done. Want to get a message across? Make it interesting. Make it compelling. Make sure it's not static. (And no, a few lines zooming in across your slide while text rotates into place isn't going to cut it.)
I'm not particularly interested in the actual content of the message here. To be honest, I'm more than a little "Web 2.0"d out. But I'll be damned if I didn't sit and watch the whole thing.
