Terra Nova has an interview up with Google’s Lively User Experience Designer:
Q&A with Google Lively’s User Experience Designer
Seems that there are many changes coming to Lively in the future. They are definitely listening to the user community and from some of these answers they are also listening to businesses and other organizations that want to use Lively. Here are a few quotes to peak your interest:
“Its a challenge to create a simple GUI for large group discussions but we are hearing some demand for it from organizations and businesses. It will take a significant amount of R&D to make it easy to participate in a seminar with 100 people chatting.”
“There is a big demand for the ability to create content. We have a tool that our artists and partners use to publish content after its been exported from off-the-shelf DCC tools like Max, Maya and SketchUp. The publishing tool needs a redesign and documentation before its ready for public consumption. However, UI design and development for that is a simpler task than ironing out the policies for user-generated content.”
Jump to the full article and read all the dialog from this Q&A. This should at least put to rest some of the concerns from the education community that Google is not taking their concerns into consideration.
