joshwprinceton

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It's a strange one indeed

true, sry

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I'm not advocating for 'capping' data plans, I'm applauding the company's focus on charging customers by data plan instead of their call/text usage. As an aside, texting and phone use are not 'capped,' in the way you are defining it.

I also don't think this is Draconian by any means, it is a pay-per-use model...is github's pricing model Draconian in your view?

It sounded good in my head...I guess the results showed that having two lobby buttons was not the right way to go! Glad to hear you support the redesign :D

i cant respond to your note directly, but true, a further experiment could be done to analyze how much of an effect the gamification had, but the existence of the effect is clear

this is accounted for towards the end of the blog by way of insisting on the importance a real-world use case experiment and determining how people adjust to the configurations over time

We have the session lengths in terms of time as well -- all the data is on git

haha of course, thanks for the active commenting on the last thread! i think that's a good example, but it seems pretty clear that your hypothesis was correct :D

hey steve, first off - thanks for reading the whole way through and in such detail. i completely agree that there are more important matters in the world. the real point of the piece is at the end when i talk about the importance of evaluating all the experiences that you encounter and how you approach the design thereof. the dollar value may not be the most scientific of conclusions, but just trying to give a tangible sense of what the effects are. it's also somewhat light-hearted, in case that wasn't clear.

in terms of further pursuit of the project, didn't have any plans for the buttons in particular except to underscore the importance of user experience design

most ptz ever?

this is AMAZING

is there a way I could have disabled that?

what is tiny tower?

The app is primarily for data collection, the next post will explain everything

Lol, genius!! Wish I saw that before I put mine up :D, not the same, but pretty funny

I just posted a quick description on this thread -- it's both a game and experiment

What is this you ask? a) it is a strangely addictive game b) it is an experiment for a blog post I'll be writing on user experience design -- particularly around offline IA. Some more info here: joshrweinstein.com

Ooo, good point!

Yup, communication I think is separate from UI (sort of in between UI and IA), it's going to be its own post entirely, I think it is incredibly, incredibly important and can only really be done after getting your hand in users' hands or really understanding the points of confusion (which is hard, since you know what your product does and how to use it)

Thanks for the feedback and good point. I'm actually kind of torn on the importance of design. I think the sentiment is that you are competing with designs of the popular sites that people already use (e.g. NYT, Google, Facebook, etc.), but I think that people are fine if things are rough around the edges -- even if they moan and groan. As I said, though, it ultimately all needs to come together.

Haha -- well if the problem is in the domain of the internet, might as well go to the people in the internet world, no?

thanks mike lol

Good call, Z is the man

I don't think so

Agreed don -- the contract was effectively worthless in terms of 'binding nature' -- more along the lines of unprofessionalism and commitment

Major lesson learned -- getting investors and advisors doesn't get you a good CTO

All valid comments -- I think that ultimately team is the most important, followed by product, which is why I moved, and we were basically doing a reset. We had stuff without him, but I wanted to build the company around him/me rather than the team we had...but agreed in part, for sure

We had a few tech people and were building on a platform we thought was stable...it wasn't and that's what motivated me to try and find an A+ player. That's definitely a lesson learned for the future though, so agreed