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April 8, 2008
Experiences vs features
Experiences vs features: TechCrunch talks about Flickr Video. I'm more interested in the comments, even though they're noisy. Some people go "Duh, it looks like other [Flash-supported] video players, but doesn't do X!" Others point out how it's video experience which complements the existing experience of visiting Flickr: "The point is video on your photostream. My family visits my photostream, they have Flickr accounts or guest passes, they check it daily, weekly, whatever. Having clips right there for them to see is the beauty of it." Don't worry just about features -- the same feature looks different in different environments. Think about the final use of the application, by a real person in a real environment, instead of just idealized feature sets (much less developmental familiarity). I haven't researched how differently-branded FLV skins handle common UI conventions recently, but there's a strong theme in the TechCrunch comments that the important thing is video within the Flickr experience, rather than just video itself.
Posted by JohnDowdell at April 8, 2008 5:50 PM