On Thursday afternoon we gave an interactive demo at ECSCW09. We set up a table with a laptop and an additional monitor to present the emulator (on the laptop screen, smaller) and the prototype with the redesigned frontend (on the bigger screen). We think we had really a great feedback from the ECSCW community (both from senior and junior researchers) and besides the usual questions (like the ones we answered at C&T and EUD) our visitors stressed some other important points we are constantly reasoning on. For example, briefly:
How we plan to integrate with Google services, and GMail in particular....
The Interaction Design team is not the only one going through a process of assessment and refinement of the choices made so far: the tech team is also working on an extensive redesign of the frontend for the itsme prototype.
The prototype has always been a tool to validate technical choices, with the nice side effect of putting into practice the ideas coming from the ID team. While being the right thing to do at the time, this meant that... well, let's face it: the prototype was pretty ugly ;)
In the last months we carried on a redesign effort, which went...
