[Sigia-l] Web 2.0 99% bad

[Jamie Foggon]

Ziya:

"do we just give up or do we design tools/functions that encourage further user
contribution/participation?"

I didn't read anything that suggested anyone should give up. The main
message was don't let the most important principles of usability slip
at the expense of fancy features that not many people want. And that
is logical and makes good business sense. There are a huge number of
sites suffering from this, and they are frequently dissected on this
list.

It's easy to design sites with features just because its technically
possible, or because we like to think we'd find want those features if
we were in that target group.

The fact that 99% of visitors don't contribute regularly via community
type features doesn't suggest to me that its bad, as the active 1%
will add a lot of value to the other 99% of visitors - but only if the
basic functionality well!


-- 
Jamie Foggon