[Sigia-l] "Social Interface"

[Michal Migurski]

A good read, haven't seen it posted here just yet:
	http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/NotJustUsability.html

"Software in the 1980s, when usability was "invented," was all about 
computer-human interaction. A lot of software still is. But the 
Internet brings us a new kind of software: software that's about 
human-human interaction. Discussion groups. Social networking. Online 
classifieds. Oh, and, uh, email. It's all software that mediates 
between people, not between the human and the computer. When you're 
writing software that mediates between people, after you get the 
usability right, you have to get the social interface right. And the 
social interface is more important. The best UI in the world won't save 
software with an awkward social interface."

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