A new Light Table experience

Post by malandrew » Sat, Mar 02, 2013, 12:44 AM UTC

pixelbath wrote: post #11

This is a very pretty editor. That said, I have no freaking idea what I'm supposed to do. I've been messing around with it for around 15 minutes now, and I still don't understand it. I added a PHP website folder and got no code hinting or anything else beyond "here is the match for your parenthesis" for either PHP or Javascript. This also resulted in my "navigate" tab being filled with SVN meta-files. I am quite conf…

This is exactly my experience as well. It's not obvious how to get started with it and there is no tutorial that I found explaining how I would go about using it.

At the very least you should record screencasts of you using LT to build LT with you talking people through what you are doing.

I really want to give this a shot, but it needs to be easy to get started.

Besides your feature and bug backlog, I would map out the user journey (i.e. create an experience map) for LT to discover all the pain and frustration points people may have with using LT.

Post by nilkn » Mon, Mar 04, 2013, 6:42 AM UTC

Sandman wrote: post #116

Every time a new version of LT playground gets released I feel like a kid in a candy store, looking for all the cool new stuff Chris and the rest of the team put in :). Awesome work, and it just keeps getting better. To be honest, since there weren't any updates in a while, I started having doubts about whether they'll be able to deliver, but I'm glad to see that the project is alive and well. Judging by the comments…

The current version of LT seems very different from what I see on that Kickstarter page.

I'm going to have to join the people who simply don't understand how to use this. It doesn't help that it seems heavily biased towards Clojure and I have no interesting Clojure codebases to play around with.

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