danhon

Hold the front page, groups of uniform gender-race people have acted cordially to people who aren't the same gender race for thousands of years? Citation needed.

There's an argument to be made for Apple selling a go-to workstation for making VR content. They might not care about consumer VR (for now), but in terms of their history, it feels a bit weird for them not to support the nascent VR content field.

This is the second vendor forum for a new, agile, iterative, user-centered procurement from the State of California.

For background:

* http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2015/11/30/a-new-approach... * http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2015/12/07/child-welfare-...

Also, I work with the awards team at CfA. Will pass on questions and answers in this thread.

New awards from Code for America recognizing the best government technologies delivering better government for the people, by the people, in the 21st century. Deadline: July 13!

"Arjun Varma is the Senior Correspondent, Entertainment at International Business Times. He comes from a diverse media background having worked across film, TV, print and digital."

So, not science reporting, then.

Yeah, it's pretty clear what the bias is here, though. Search your friends for their bikini pics.

Anyone know who made this?

Check out PIE, the startup incubator housed at Wieden+Kennedy. Drop me a line at dan.hon@wk.com if you'd like an intro.

Exactly.

This misses the point. Skinning - in the Winamp model of 'same functionality but different look' - is not the same as effective visual storytelling and usage of animation.

I'm not talking about just how Movie OS looks, but how it behaves as a whole. I agree that sticking a Star Trek skin on Windows 98 reduces usability.

"And do you really want it displayed with a huge green bar every time you get into something that was previously protected? Aren't there some situations where discretion is preferable?"

Well - we won't know without trying. But it's clear that in the Read/Write Web Facebook case, a bunch of people had thought that they had logged in to Facebook when in fact they hadn't. And that they didn't even know where they were.

You may not want it every time. But at the moment, we don't even have it at all. That's restrictive in the kind of messages we can send out.

For emails flying off the screen: the execution is in the detail. A few seconds may be too long. For some people, it may not even be long enough. But the animation isn't necessarily just showing that an email is being sent: it can convey a lot of other information in a clear, yet subtle way. It's interesting that there's no visual cue when an email is sent that distinguishes between sending to a single individual or a group of people, or an even larger group of people.

I disagree, but I can see where you're coming from based on the examples I picked (which were all biased toward operating system maintenance actions, given the source material).

From the point of view of a naive user, there are new types of interactions that can have massive social implications: e.g. changing Facebook relationship status. At the moment, the notification of that status change to the user is pretty minimal. It does not, for example, make clear that that change will be propagated to, say, over 500 people, and all of their contacts.

There may be people who are more concerned about their social standing than whether they've accidentally formatted a volume or not.

Fantastic - thanks!

Yes. We need to get other people - people skilled in communicating to large audiences (and these people exist: they just exist as advertisers, graphic novelists, film directors, storyboard artists etc) involved in how we design our interfaces for everyone else, for the people who don't want to use a CLI.

Yes. My post was inspired by a discussion I had with someone wondering who was incredibly passionate about helping ordinary non-computer literate audiences -- e.g. the Read/Write Web Facebook Login Fiasco audience -- understand the consequences of their actions when they use a computer. It struck me as interesting that it was Schematic that was able to take the ideas from a interaction system designed to be watched to one that was designed to be used.

I completely agree - expanding the UI palette lets you use more varied, subtle (or less so) tools in different contexts for different audiences. People who already understand the consequences of their actions may not want/need to be constantly reminded.

Yes, it does.