Better collaborative authoring tools, please
3rd April 2006, 8:11 pm
From web usability guru Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, looking at the latest web hype, an interesting suggestion in passing:
“Now, if only someone would make a Wiki solution with great usability that average people could use to author strongly interlinked hypertexts. That would be something worth almost any level of hype. The way to knock out Microsoft Office is not to reimplement its feature set from two versions ago in a different programming language. We don’t need bad copies — we need collaborative authoring of hyperspaces as opposed to linear documents.”
Sounds good to me.
April 4th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
I thought that recently too as I thought of a good solution to sharing information amongst a wide variety of people working in a voluntary capacity (our church as it happens). I think some wikis are close (like jot.com), but I’m sure there’s some fine tuning that can be done to reduce every little bit of “user experience” confusion and discordance.
April 13th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
No sooner does one mention something about Web Usability on the UK Riders mailing list than you find that it has previously appeared on the CharityBlog!