January 2007 - Posts

Achieving that flow state for user experiences
23 January 07 08:56 AM

What would happen if you took great game design principles and applied them to product development for something other than games? Would you get a really fun and engaging product? Or would you get a product that completely misses the mark? I don't know Read More...

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Filed under: design, flow, games

RE: Democracy for Online Communities
17 January 07 09:57 AM

Over the past few months as the product manager for blogs and forums, I've had the pleasure of meeting some incredibly talented and passionate folks. Joe Morel , over in the Developer Division is one of them. He recently wrote a post that is near and Read More...

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Filed under: community, forums

Forums and Forum Views
17 January 07 09:54 AM

Currently on MSDN and TechNet sites, we have forums organized in a general hierarchy of site, groups, forums, and threads (which contain messages). From an organizational logic standpoint this makes a lot of sense. A particular message belongs to a thread, Read More...

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Filed under: discovery, forums

slowing down, snowing down
11 January 07 12:54 PM

Last night during the rush hour commute, the Puget Sound region was hit again by snow, ice and rain. Needless to say, it did not make for a fun commute. After spending about two hours waiting for a bus that never showed, I ended up hitching a ride with Read More...

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Filed under: community, flow, play, seattle

hello world (again, and again...)
10 January 07 12:29 AM

Hi again. I'm going to be building out this blog to house all of my work related items. Stay tuned for more info. In the mean time, some pieces of me may be found at: shine's cafe my other spaces site my personal site Read More...

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Filed under: general, personal