[IxDA Discuss] Movable Type 4 (Beta)

[Christine Boese]

I'd say it also reveals the power of look and feel, and intangible
"atmosphere" to trump other factors.

Chris

On 6/7/07, Dan Saffer <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
>
> Decidedly true.
>
> I've observed people using the worst products imaginable and when you
> ask them, "What would you change about this?" they say, "Oh, nothing,
> it does what I need it to do."
>
> Anyone who has ever worked at a large software company or a place
> like Ebay can tell you the power of an established user base that
> likes the product and wants it to stay the same forever because the
> are used to it. Which with desktop software you can kind of do--you
> don't HAVE to upgrade to CS3--but with hosted web services, well, the
> service provider controls those. Witness the outrage when Flickr
> informed its users they would have to log in using a Yahoo account.
>
> Dan
>
> On Jun 7, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Mark Schraad wrote:
>
> > A bit of a theoretical tangent, but this article talks about the
> > often potential miss-perception of quality through familiarity. I
> > have not yet read the full study... but the implication seems to be
> > that knowing it leads to the assessment that it is good - or at
> > least better than anything new would seem. It also has fairly large
> > implications for the power of known brands and brand loyalty. It
> > seemed relevant.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070605-product-loyalty-
> > consumers-mistake-familiarity-with-superiority.html
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, June 07, 2007, at 10:25AM, "Dan Saffer"
> > <dan at odannyboy.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Christine Boese wrote:
> >>
> >>> Oh man, all that interface does is make me miss Movable 2.x, before
> >>> the 3.0upgrade. It looks downright Vox-y.
> >>>
> >>> It's probably a nostalgia thing for me, just missing the good old
> >>> days, that
> >>> clean, simple gray Movable CMS, and so much freedom to play with
> >>> templates
> >>> and design.
> >>
> >> How do we evaluate the success of a design? One measure is whether or
> >> not it improves the experience of the majority of users. Interaction
> >> designers who want to play with the CMS templates definitely do not
> >> fall into that category. :)
> >>
> >> SixApart seems to be shifting the MT audience towards slightly less
> >> technical users, especially those in the enterprise who are managing
> >> multiple blogs. (Although MT is still the high-end of their
> >> offerings.) I haven't used MT4, but from what I've seen, the new
> >> design is a step in the right direction for that. As more
> >> organizations have blogs that are staffed by non-technical people,
> >> the new design seems appropriate.
> >>
> >> Like all technological products, there is always going to be a shift
> >> as the adoption gets higher. There are still a large number of people
> >> who think the GUI was a mistake. :)
> >>
> >> Dan
> >
>
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