Putting Users First

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The focus is on people and their needs for what we are building and designing. We need to be aware of technology pain and how we can best ease that pain. Building around real social relationships is one of the areas of focus in this 30 minute presnetation.

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Putting Users FirstThomas Vander Wal

Presented to: Future of Web AppsLondon, England :: 4 October 2007

Begin with the User

Wait...

Throw out the “User”

Focus on...

People...

With people

it is all about

Desires...

Interests...

Wants...

Needs...

Focus on Real People

Including...

the 95% who don’t live their life on the web

Tech Pain:

Syncing

Identity

PortabilityEase of use

Refinding

AttentionPrivacy

Taste

Easing Tech Pain

Tagging & Other Features

De

rive

d V

alu

e

Work Contributing

Ratings

Long Text Annotation

Tagging

Favorites

Titles

Abstracts

Identity

The “F” Word

Folksonomy

Folksonomy Definition

❖ Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of pages and objects for one's own retrieval

❖ The tagging is usually done in a social environment (shared and open to others)

❖ The act of tagging is done by the person consuming the information

Folksonomy Triad

Object Identity

Metadata

Interest

VocabularyDefinition

Dual Folksonomy Triad

Object Identity

Metadata

Definition

Vocabulary

Terminology

Interest

Culture

Community

Finding More Objects

Metadata

Object 1 Identity Object 2

Social BookmarkingGets Social

Apple Group(public/private)Top Tags

RecentBookmarks

RecentDiscussions

Group Members

Sharing and being social is how we humans got

out of caves

Being social is how we advance as a society

Getting to Real Relationships

Spheres of Sociality

Mob

Collective

Selective

Personal

Directional Sociality

Not All Relationships

Are Equal

Real RelationshipsSelf Friend

Self Friend

Self Acquaintance

Self Friend

Self Stranger? ?

Unequal Access

Private

Public

Share Public

Share Private

Listen

Friend A X X

Friend B X X X

Friend C X X

Acquaintance A X X

Acquaintance B X

Approaching Real Relationships

Granular Listening

Information is good

but, we need to be able to do something with

the information

Twitter has Favorites

Ease of Use

Test early

Test often

Test with real people

Thank you!

URL: http://infocloudsolutions.comE-mail: thomas@infocloudsolutions.comE-mail: thomas@vanderwal.netAIM: vanderwalSkype: tjvanderwal