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Communication tools that people use heavily enough to care about acquire a context beyond just "Who I can communicate with". As the recipient, for the majority of my routine communications I get information from medium > sender > content, even though all ways of reaching me just make my phone jingle. The series of decisions that results in me calling someone is so radically different than the one that results in IMin…
The article brings up a good point, sometimes it makes more sense to start with the person. For example, let's say I need to get in touch with my friend to quickly inform them of a change to our plans. Open Skype? Not online. Check Facebook, nope, they're not on. Messenger? Nope. Ok, I'll open my contact book, and get their number to call. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply select the person I'm trying to reach, a…
This isn't new, my android gingerbread (2.3) phone does this. FWIW I'm going to upgrade this year . . . maybe.
Communication tools that people use heavily enough to care about acquire a context beyond just "Who I can communicate with". As the recipient, for the majority of my routine communications I get information from medium > sender > content, even though all ways of reaching me just make my phone jingle. The series of decisions that results in me calling someone is so radically different than the one that results in IMin…
Say I want to browse the web. Or check my inbox. Or read Hacker News. Or get a file off of my Dropbox. Or read an ebook. None of those things are "people-centric", e.g. they aren't tied to a single (other) person. People-centric UI doesn't make sense because I use my computer for interacting with many users at once simultaneously through websites, mail, etc. If I'm not doing that, I may be interacting with my persona…
Add yourself as a people in the people centered UI. We've already had "My Documents" "My music" "My videos" "My pr0n" and similar such default directories in new OS installs for some time. Just kidding about the fourth one? I would imagine you'd have under Person "25cf" an option for dropbox, ebook, etc. In fact for shared stuff this could be kind of cool, click on my wife and here's our shared dropbox folder (well a…
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Given that it is first and foremost my device, or at least a UI oriented at me, I shouldn't have to go inside my self to find my stuff. People centric design is great if all you do is communicate with a set group of people, however if you're more asocial, then it's just sort of sad and hard to use.
I justify my sorta-bright idea by being an old married guy with two dressers in the bedroom, mine and hers. Do any married couples randomly intermix clothing, like all shirts go here, mine and yours, even the non-heteronormative couples? So it feels "natural" much as there's his and hers dressers to store clothes (and each kid, too) then the phone would have his and hers phone icons to store clothes, err, to store co…
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Given that it is first and foremost my device, or at least a UI oriented at me, I shouldn't have to go inside my self to find my stuff. People centric design is great if all you do is communicate with a set group of people, however if you're more asocial, then it's just sort of sad and hard to use.
I justify my sorta-bright idea by being an old married guy with two dressers in the bedroom, mine and hers. Do any married couples randomly intermix clothing, like all shirts go here, mine and yours, even the non-heteronormative couples? So it feels "natural" much as there's his and hers dressers to store clothes (and each kid, too) then the phone would have his and hers phone icons to store clothes, err, to store co…
(You may see a deleted comment of mine; I re-read your top comment and the analogy clicked.)
I guess I'd call myself more of a power user, but when I look at what I've got going on my computer at night it typically looks like this:
- playing a video game
- talking to arbitrary group of friends on skype over headset
- streaming video to twitch (to whomever is watching)
- programming my side project on my laptop during downtime (waiting for people to connect in-game, etc.)
- browsing the web (looking up game items, watching funny videos, researching some kind of programming thing I'm figuring out)
- monitoring my inbox
- monitoring my twitter feed
Talking to my friends on Skype is definitely direct person to person communication. But even then, I think more along the lines of "1. I want to have a group conversation with Friend A, B, and X, 2. I'd like to communicate with them through the medium of Skype, 3. open Skype 4. add the specific friends I want to talk to to my conversation, 5. go ham". There's no one friend in particular I would "open" first, and subsequently open other friends into. That seems backwards. It's more about what I want to do, not necessarily who I want to talk to.