[Sigia-l] Your take on MySpace

[Dan Saffer]

Jesse James Garrett wrote a BusinessWeek column in response to this  
question:

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/dec2005/ 
id20051230_570094.htm

"Design Anarchy that Works"

Back in the 1960s, architects kept asking the same question about Las  
Vegas that designers are now asking MySpace: How does it get away  
with this? Why it is it so popular? and Isn't this just junk?

Some influential architects wrote a book called Learning From Las  
Vegas to examine what made Las Vegas tick. One of their premises was  
that you can't view Las Vegas the same way you view other cities: the  
scale is different and there are different patterns going on. I think  
the same is true with MySpace. We just need to find the new patterns  
so we can discuss them and use them elsewhere.

Teaser plug: Bill DeRouchey and I are planning to discuss this topic  
(Summit Committee Gods willing) at the Las Vegas IA Summit next year  
(and possibly a few other places) with a workshop we're tentatively  
calling Learning [Interaction Design] from Las Vegas. I hope some of  
you will participate!

Dan


Dan Saffer
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