Comments on: In search of a better way to design http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design/ This is beyond marketing, it is manipulation Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:25:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Paul-André Dupuis http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design/#comment-4238 Paul-André Dupuis Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:31:04 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design#comment-4238 Allow me to draw your attention to my Ajilon pageless white-labeled offer. The website market will explose: 1. if a technology product exists to replace the obsolete page approach so as to advance the state of website technology to the point of having the website supply curve drop significantly. 2. if it is properly packaged and commercialized. The Ajilon white labeled website production, design amd maintenance service does that: the url becomes a query and its result-set is the website constituted of the most advanced functionnalities characterizing conventional paged-based websites. My Montreal Solution Center and its back-up center in Raleigh N.C. insure its commercialization. The thrust of my argument is the capacity of my service to drop the cost curve to supply websites and stores at a price that users will find affordable and even well below their price tolerance threshhold. Once that occurs, users will test a variety of features and develop a taste for them. Then the market will become demand driven, like with mobile phones, where initially mobile network providers gave away the phones against a contract. Users now change phone just for the features! There will be 2 revenue flows: subscription fee and advertizing placements. Again, based on the assumption that the price elasticity of demand for websites is highly superior to 1: Ajilon's technology product bundled in the white labeled service will drop costs that companies using the labor intensive page technology cannot not match, and that clients, smbs, entreprises will gladly accept. The opportunity cost to using paged website technology is not only the foregone revenues but also the forgone dominant position on the website market. Ajilon is a vendor consolidator who can scale from a 20$ package to the Fortune 500 package Ajilon does not use the hosting notion because it has no pages to host: it has a data-driven result-sets. Hosting fees become thus obsolete. It is website production fees, maintenance fees and ads that we should talk about. Ajilon uses it itself The offer can fit into the call flow of your other services. Sales teams could at anytime transfer the call by a hot button to Ajilon attendants. Ajilon has ways to fit into billing platform so that there be only one bill. It will be a pleasure to speak to you. Cheers!! Paul-André Dupuis Directeur commercial Ajilon inc 1155, rue Université Bureau 1410 Montréal Qc 514 875-9520, x230 Allow me to draw your attention to my Ajilon pageless white-labeled offer.

The website market will explose:
1. if a technology product exists to replace the obsolete page approach so as to advance the state of website technology to the point of having the website supply curve drop significantly.
2. if it is properly packaged and commercialized.
The Ajilon white labeled website production, design amd maintenance service does that: the url becomes a query and its result-set is the website constituted of the most advanced functionnalities characterizing conventional paged-based websites. My Montreal Solution Center and its back-up center in Raleigh N.C. insure its commercialization.

The thrust of my argument is the capacity of my service to drop the cost curve to supply websites and stores at a price that users will find affordable and even well below their price tolerance threshhold. Once that occurs, users will test a variety of features and develop a taste for them. Then the market will become demand driven, like with mobile phones, where initially mobile network providers gave away the phones against a contract. Users now change phone just for the features!

There will be 2 revenue flows: subscription fee and advertizing placements.

Again, based on the assumption that the price elasticity of demand for websites is highly superior to 1:

Ajilon’s technology product bundled in the white labeled service will drop costs that companies using the labor intensive page technology cannot not match, and that clients, smbs, entreprises will gladly accept.
The opportunity cost to using paged website technology is not only the foregone revenues but also the forgone dominant position on the website market.
Ajilon is a vendor consolidator who can scale from a 20$ package to the Fortune 500 package
Ajilon does not use the hosting notion because it has no pages to host: it has a data-driven result-sets. Hosting fees become thus obsolete. It is website production fees, maintenance fees and ads that we should talk about.
Ajilon uses it itself
The offer can fit into the call flow of your other services. Sales teams could at anytime transfer the call by a hot button to Ajilon attendants.
Ajilon has ways to fit into billing platform so that there be only one bill.
It will be a pleasure to speak to you.
Cheers!!
Paul-André Dupuis
Directeur commercial
Ajilon inc
1155, rue Université
Bureau 1410
Montréal Qc
514 875-9520, x230

]]> By: Dragos http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design/#comment-2190 Dragos Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:40:46 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design#comment-2190 For static pages (describing a static designed website, weblog, portal, or any other "old type" of web application, using or not dynamic content fetched through PHP or ASP or other backend technology) you can still use sitemaps and old style diagrams to build upon, because the information is displayed through a series of designed templates for every page and the form of the page is basicly the same, just the information is refreshing. For dynamic pages (Flash sites and applications mostly, but Javascript/AJAX based portions of a static page can be also considered here) you can use storyboards (just like in motion graphics) because the form of a certain page is changing depending on the content displayed. There are ofcourse hybrids - static pages designed in Flash (where a Flash website can look and act the same as a HTML website, but with funky animations for transitions of pages), or websites build upon user-configurated on-the-fly templates (Google, Yahoo all have pages that can be configurated freely by the users). One must see that the difference is in the layout of the page. Not in the information displayed. Also, a sitemap is just a map for the links in a website. You can have a sitemap for a dynamic page also (Flash sites have links too). So basicly, for a HTML based website with a fixed layout design you still use page diagrams and for dynamic layout design for Flash based applications you use storyboards and scripts to describe the actions and links. Simple. For static pages (describing a static designed website, weblog, portal, or any other “old type” of web application, using or not dynamic content fetched through PHP or ASP or other backend technology) you can still use sitemaps and old style diagrams to build upon, because the information is displayed through a series of designed templates for every page and the form of the page is basicly the same, just the information is refreshing.

For dynamic pages (Flash sites and applications mostly, but Javascript/AJAX based portions of a static page can be also considered here) you can use storyboards (just like in motion graphics) because the form of a certain page is changing depending on the content displayed.

There are ofcourse hybrids - static pages designed in Flash (where a Flash website can look and act the same as a HTML website, but with funky animations for transitions of pages), or websites build upon user-configurated on-the-fly templates (Google, Yahoo all have pages that can be configurated freely by the users).

One must see that the difference is in the layout of the page. Not in the information displayed.

Also, a sitemap is just a map for the links in a website. You can have a sitemap for a dynamic page also (Flash sites have links too).

So basicly, for a HTML based website with a fixed layout design you still use page diagrams and for dynamic layout design for Flash based applications you use storyboards and scripts to describe the actions and links.

Simple.

]]> By: Making Wireframes Even More Useful? | Pop Stalin Designs’ Design Blog http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design/#comment-2095 Making Wireframes Even More Useful? | Pop Stalin Designs’ Design Blog Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:00:36 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design#comment-2095 [...] I was reading Justin Kistners’ blog, Metafluence, and came across his post “In search of a better way to design.” He makes the argument that wireframes are bad when it comes to creating interactive design. He then introduces the idea of page description diagrams originally introduced by Dan Brown at Boxes and Arrows. A page description diagram is basically a text-based description of the site breaking down the priority of site elements on the page. It is used by some as an alternative to wireframes. [...] [...] I was reading Justin Kistners’ blog, Metafluence, and came across his post “In search of a better way to design.” He makes the argument that wireframes are bad when it comes to creating interactive design. He then introduces the idea of page description diagrams originally introduced by Dan Brown at Boxes and Arrows. A page description diagram is basically a text-based description of the site breaking down the priority of site elements on the page. It is used by some as an alternative to wireframes. [...]

]]> By: mr. diggles http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design/#comment-953 mr. diggles Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:59:16 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design#comment-953 i prioritize the content then base my layout decisions off of that. simple I know. i have a boner for ajax. shhhh.... don't tell. i prioritize the content then base my layout decisions off of that. simple I know.

i have a boner for ajax. shhhh…. don’t tell.

]]> By: sabrina http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design/#comment-919 sabrina Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:59:52 +0000 http://www.metafluence.com/in-search-of-a-better-way-to-design#comment-919 I am good at dreaming, let me try some crazy postulating! I saw a multi point touch screen (yes a TED.com talk) and decided that is my favorite way to interact with technology. Picture a drafting board size and angle screen. You can pull up a keyboard and size it to your own hands or just talk of course... I like that as the interface of the future. Touching two points and dragging away from each will allow you to zoom in. I like the idea of scale, of zooming in and out in a Google Earth way. That is a great way to interact with any physical product on the web. Look around see something, zoom in, rotate it. I want everything on one page in an organized/decorated creative way, then I want to zoom in on what is interesting. I don't know what kind of programming that is. It seems to me that nature has a very good structure for containing a lot of information at several levels... What about the dewey decimal system? Just though I would throw that out there haven't looked into it. When I am looking at educational stuff it would be nice to cross referance to similar sites with a universal organizational system... I haven't been in second life but I think I like that model- maybe I am prejudice from reading cyberpunk novels. But why do I have to have an avatar can't I look anonymously? I am good at dreaming, let me try some crazy postulating!
I saw a multi point touch screen (yes a TED.com talk) and decided that is my favorite way to interact with technology. Picture a drafting board size and angle screen. You can pull up a keyboard and size it to your own hands or just talk of course… I like that as the interface of the future. Touching two points and dragging away from each will allow you to zoom in. I like the idea of scale, of zooming in and out in a Google Earth way. That is a great way to interact with any physical product on the web. Look around see something, zoom in, rotate it. I want everything on one page in an organized/decorated creative way, then I want to zoom in on what is interesting. I don’t know what kind of programming that is. It seems to me that nature has a very good structure for containing a lot of information at several levels…

What about the dewey decimal system? Just though I would throw that out there haven’t looked into it. When I am looking at educational stuff it would be nice to cross referance to similar sites with a universal organizational system…

I haven’t been in second life but I think I like that model- maybe I am prejudice from reading cyberpunk novels. But why do I have to have an avatar can’t I look anonymously?

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