We Have To Stop Meeting Like This: A Few Good Design Minutes with Jesse James Garrett
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We here at ScribeMedia.Org attend a lot of conferences. Health, we’re there. New Media, there too. General Webbery, we’re lurking about. Design and architecture? Of course.
And if you surveyed the shooters among us about our favorite time during conference days, the resounding double-plus good, thumbs up, hands down, we-like-it-more-than-any-other-time would be cocktail hour in the cocktail space with our day’s-all-done cocktail face.
Which is where and when we ran into Jesse James Garrett at Adobe Max in Chicago. We’ve run into him elsewhere, of course. Most notably at various design and Ajax events because of his work in those fields. For example, as we wrote back in the day:
He won a 2006 Wired Magazine RAVE Award in technology; his 2002 book, The Elements of User Experience, moved beyond its original Web design audience and was adopted in software development and industrial design; and he’s credited with creating the first visual vocabulary for describing information architecture and interaction design (translated into eight languages, even).
But this was different. We were at Adobe Max to think about Flex, AIR, high def video and the codecs making it all possible. Jesse didn’t register on our radar screens until we saw him, but when we did conversations ensued. Because what’s going to be very exceptionally important as we start developing AIR applications is the design experience within them, and, in particular, the user expectations of the actual AIR apps that people are interacting with.
About AIR
The uninitiated can refer their browsers here and here to update themselves on what AIR is.
For example, here at the mothership we’re fond of a variety of AIR apps. But how do you explain to users that there’s an incredible benefit to using them while simultaneously helping them understand that these desktop Web apps perform specific functions while connected online, and other functions while offline? Better yet, how do you convey that the actions they perform on their desktops are actions that will be logged and recorded at a faraway Web site?
In a few words, how do you design to understandable ignorance.
This is what we hoped to discuss with Jesse, and in the video above he provides various clues about how to make this happen.
Fortunately, this all happened after happy hour. And, fortunately, this all happened because of happy hour.
Enjoy.
Michael Cervieri is Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.Org, except on Wednesday and Thursday evenings when he teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Michael Cervieri is Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.Org and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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