Re: [vmeet] Remote Hub Meeting: Open to All

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 4/6/2016 8:05 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
> owever, this identifies a more fundamental problem that I've
> commented on enough in the past to be sick of complaining about.
> Especially if one is either busy or inexperienced, having to
> bounce back and forth among multiple web pages to figure out


As you mote, there are islands of significant improvement.  I'm pretty 
sure, however, that what is needed is more than bridges connecting the 
islands, and very probably a much more integrative model.

What we are lacking are models for /use/ of the meeting information.  In 
UI design, two related approaches are task-based design and 
activity-based design.[*]

We need perhaps 5-7 prototypical descriptions of how the meeting 
information gets used and then design the pages to facilitate such use.

d/

[*] Don Norman likes to cite the Logitech Harmony remote as an example 
of how this approach differs from normal UI design.  Rather than the 
user needing to turn on and off various devices and set various 
parameters, they simply punch a single button to "watch TV" or "listen 
to radio" and the underlying scripts and state information know what to 
turn off/on, adjust.

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net