Love and Hate Quips
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| Love and Hate Quips | |
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| Design Process | |
| Current Phase: | Prototype |
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| People | |
| Engineers: | Colin Walters, Havoc Pennington, Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Owen Taylor |
| Ethnographers: | Nobody |
| Designers: | Bryan Clark, Mike Langlie |
| Multi-Disciplinary: | Donald Fischer |
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Define
After using the Web Swarm for a while we noticed a pattern where people wouldn't enter into most of the chats. Reasons varied for this from not wanting to commit to a chat or lack of an excuse to start a chat.
So our definition for this activity was to 'Give people an excuse to quickly speak their mind on a share'
Research
This came out of the Web Swarm chat feature not being used as often as people were sharing links.
Some of the reasons people gave for not chatting were:
- A chat might take a longer time commitment than they wanted to give
- They really only had one thing to say
- They didn't like the link but didn't want to get into a discussion about it
- No one else was entering the chat rooom
Ideate
Our ideate phase bore several ideas to solve the problems of people not chatting around links.
- Electric shock (via the mouse) when you view a link and don't chat about it
- Allow people to chat through the framer
- Open the chat window after someone sends a message through the framer
- Only allow people to send 1 message through the framer
- Let people mark that they like or dislike the share
- Love it or hate it
- Let people quip on anything in the site
- A band
- A song
- A person
Prototype
Prototype is the current phase in this activity's design process
We shared one of our early prototypes of the love and hate quip system on our blog for people to see what it might look like and how it might act. The initial reactions were excellent.
Here are some of the mockup prototypes we created for this.
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Currently we've used the Quips feature in the account section to setup your various online accounts. Now it's time to look into both quips on an artist page and quips on a shared link.
