March 14th, 2006: Design Session:Stamping and Communications*

Goal:

1. Review use cases to nail down user's mental model
2. Surface implementation questions and issues. And brainstorm around that.

Non-Goal 1. Solve all our problems

Agenda Walkthrough use cases - as if there

1. Book club -book list
2. Book club - Invitation scheduling a session

Katie Implementation Issues & Braistorm

Katie's Book Club

Julie Lizzy Niko Caroline Trish Katie Beth

Feedback on the list -- >Book suggestions --> People (creator: katie to: Book Club members)

• The know it all *
• Plot v. America *
• Gun, germs and steal (note Lizzy didn't like it) *

• Read the book -liked it?
• Fiction/Non-fiction (genre)
• Amazon link, synopsis/review

• Lizzy responds saying, "Guns, germs & steel" was really repetitive. -->Alec: I thumbs up/down
• Caroline suggests Time Traveler's Wife --> *
• Beth says - I hate this genre, how about romatic thriller's --> Chatter
• Julie says (researched TTW-SciFi fans hate (Niko re: )�SciFi fans loved it --> [*Chatter*]/*

Provides a link

• Trish suggests a new book that is available on line --> *
• Katie Enough- we have a list
• Let's pick one for the next session:

-->Consensus -->Likes-added up, dislikes are subtracted | $10--> distribute $10 among the books TTW is the winner -->I

Julie

• Event - instance --> 2nd Wednesday of the Mo. 7:30 - PA, CA
• Stamps Event: Media Kind Book

• Event Stuff --> single occurrence
• * - Book-related schema -- > Title/event title?-- >*, author #page -- >*
• Amazon link cover image

Task: Get a copy of the book Read book

OI

• Book Title
• Event Title

How does the user know if they should stamp an event as a task or create a separate task?

• Host/Organizer: Julie *--> edited time, propose new time -->
• Invitee: Katie, Niko
• Information re: book
• Can't host session @normal
• Visitor-->rescheudle here's the book

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• Katie wants to invite[*Chatter*] [Priss - *]
• Add [* 1/2 hour] so she can ask questions [*Chatter]
• others reply: sure sounds fun [*Chatter*]
• * 2 people: kids will be sick for a ling time on vacation-can't come
• Julie - propose [*keep time]/location?
• * Lizzy? --> OK! here are directions
• Niko finds books online
• Share link with people*

Observers: husbands, Friends

Scenario 1: Constucting a list of books that may be a book to read (book suggestion feedback list)

• By person feedback
• Feedback - next book on booklist
• Each book - seperate piece of paper feedback

Example: delicious library

DM: Stamping DM: Communcations

Edited time --> Propose new time

Legend

• * = Item
• [*Chatter*] = Chatter
• sketch of stamping comm:
  

Questions

1. Communications 2 media items - how fit with stamping?
2. media item
   • multiple communications
   • how does that fit?
3. book & multiple meetings?
4. book & multiple tasks?
5. does stamping always imply uniqueness? Event & book always is this other event? (I think not)
6. Does stamping solve all use cases? Which use cases
7. Does 1:1 us1: many affect how people think about stamping?
8. Deso domain model have to match "identity" property of stamping? of Linking under the hood?
9. Is it just usual?
10. What are the items involved?
11. What shows up w/ searches
12. What gets shared?
13. What does it mean to unstamp something? Split into tow items?

Jeffery's Q

• Stamping int he users mental model, is a tight compling of silos
• In some cases, stamping may be a statemnt of identity & uniqueness
• In other cases, while to the user, it looks like adding attributes, it's actualy adding a reference to cover many other items
• The key is that stamping is one easy mechannism for the user to obtain this tight coupling

• Strong linking (displayed together)
• Weak linking (display reference)
• Identity linking (cause to be the same)

• Key idea when appropriate, use thing itself as a reminder

Next steps

• Storyboards
• Write up jeffery/alec from engineering
• Some discussion with the write ups
• Not just 0.7-->Long term details
• terminology (rubber stamping, not postage stamping--> you can't unstamp it)
• If you have a point of view please do a write up and send it to the list.

• first sketch of stamping and comm: