Thursday, January 31, 2008
ENSO, MIX08, Usernames-vs-UX and Aggregated UX
I downloaded Enso last week and now I can't live without it. I have to say that I loved it from the website description.
They guys from Humanized were bought by Mozilla and will be working in their Labs. It's highly probable that you start seeing these kind of things in the next version of the open source browser.
I am happy. They share my vision about how web/desktop software must inter-operate, putting users first. Will browsers start to be a little more semantic? I will take the bet.
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If you are a good observer (see the right pane, stupid!), you may have discovered I am going to MIX'08 in Las Vegas. If you are going there, I will be glad to met you to talk about any topic, if you drop me a line. I can't believe I will see Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer. I just bought two of his books last week. It was a signal :)
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I know that the second part of the GMail review is pending. I have already written it (actually, I wrote it with the first part), but I am just waiting to post it with a little surprise ;)
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I started a discussion in the Jared Spool's blog. This is a honor for me :)
He responded with another post. What do you think about usernames and the user experience? Can we really improve it?
Do you believe in the global/aggregated user experience concept? Who should care about it?
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This is an atypical post.
After a couple of days i must say i can't get used to it. Surely is a lack of using time, but Enso is not "making my computer tasks easier and faster" as promised.
As somebody says in Enso page about Monolog boxes and transparent messages:
"My little hamster brain has developed a way of dealing with pop-up messages that is inhumane, so now humane-ness is scary. But then again, habitualization is one of those human things, right?"
Another thing i cant' get used to, is the quasimodal mode. Is hard to keep a finger pressing CapsLock and writting with the rest, isn't it?
As i said at the begining: i like the idea so i'll keep trying...
Good luck in Las Vegas!!! ;)
Well.. It took me a few days to get used with the quasimodal but now i am using it inadvertently*.
I think it could depends on the keyboard you are using too. Also, it has a few bugs, specially when you want to actually use your CAPS LOCK. But anyway, you can change the key if you want.
Let me know your experience in a few weeks!
(*) Actually, I translated this word from spanish using ENSO, from this unusable Blogger's inputbox :D
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