What is the problem:
There are so many social networks and supporting apps to keep track of these days it becomes difficult for people to keep tabs on the content and people they care the most about.
What are the solutions (ie. explorations, ideas, experiments, speculations):
My solution: Is to create a supporting application that will automatically curate and organize multiple mobile social networking experiences into one a single better user experience. *Ideally this would be accomplished in the background, but if needed fully editable by the user.
"Something that can do its own thing in the background is great" - connecting the film
This can be accomplished through:
- Algorithm - ie. Facebook - Edge Rank, Google - Pagerank
- User Control - In app customizing. ie. selecting people within those networks and turning off and on what sites you want to see their work from. ie. Parent, wants to see their child's social networking activity more so than that of a friend they just talk to once and a while. Also the idea of grouping. ie. family members, etc.
- User Centric Design - Focus on the wants and needs of the users based on my research.
- Smart Design - How? Figure it out Eli.
Research Moving Forward - (testing the validity of my RESEARCH assumptions): AKA bust out the sticky notes!
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- Personally survey how many networks am I on? Where am I overwhelmed? What content matters most to me? What would I do differently?
- Creating a survey to pinpoint what content matters most to the social networking user.
- Survey the usual paths/features that the social media app user uses daily?
- How would they group their friends together?
- How would they group their social networks together?
- What kind of options would they like to see?
- What kind of options would they assume would be there? - Blind questions / Stickies game! - Focus on this later on.
- Technological Audit of existing algorithms - how do they function and determine the order of importance of user information.
- Technological Audit of social networks with apps that carry across multiple platforms. Is Windows 8 practical? If vector based, responsive design it should carry over.
- Technological Audit of future technology that could be used by social networks. ie. seniors, connecting house hold devices, augmented reality,
Personal Project Goals/Questions:
- Future Proofing - How can this still function 5-10 years from now?
- Ambition - Is this ambitious enough? What am I offering thats going to break the mold?
- Innovative - How can I create an innovative new experience? Is this through the concept? Through a new UX experience?
Design Concepts - (testing the validity of my DESIGN assumptions):
- Responsive Design - Would allow for use across multiple platforms. ie. iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, etc.
- Vector Design Standards - Moving into 2013, ideally dropping skuemorphic design would allow for a more neutral non-iOS centric style.
Audience Needs / Motivation / User Types
Create a meaningful description of my audience.
Find different kinds of people.
When do they need certain kinds of content?
Pick some users!
Create a bad ass survey!
Don't hey bogged down on little details!
This is all prospective tech! SPECULATE!
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