With fatter data pipes, large high resolution displays, and web content that is increasingly imagery and video, the cracks have been forming in Web interfaces for some time now. Here are some thoughts I’ve put together on the subject in a video narrated slide set:
Brilliant. And odd that I found you through the MITX Exchange, and had to hunt to even find the post and your call to engage on this (of which no one did).
The issue you open up describing – clutter without meaning (to me as a consumer), is a topic I am highly interested in. I am part of the Adobe Media Player test group, and am curious to your opinion of this concept of aggregating the content only (that being the thing I want – the video, in this small instance), and what changes that may impose on creators/studios/etc.
I spoke with an Adobe alliance lead at length about this, and he was shocked I was even thinking like that.
I am also engaged with a group hoping to launch a video site (think FOX, but Indie Style), where the single most explicit goal is to create an interface that pays homage to the technology and content – and not the trimmings that appear on (nearly) every media site out there. So naturally we looked to Hyper-video, with hopes of creating an experience that is “purposeful” and harnesses not what we’ve done, but what we can do.
Care to engage is some random dialog on this? If your off this topic I understand… I’ve just not found anyone talking like this so openly (and the Web 2.0 post prior).
Best. -t
By: Thomas Obrey on Wed Mar 12 2008
at 2:17 pm