OnHollywood conference over
One of the things that was on the top of my priority list, the past few days, was planning the online network for the OnHollywood conference that Tony Perkins and AlwaysOn organizes. The conference started on May 2nd, 2006 and got over on May 4, 2006. The entire team worked hard for it and enjoyed the fact that the system was used by a lot of real people with the member count of the network as around 40,000 members (courtesy migrated members from AlwaysOn)
OnHollywood conference network was hosted as one of the network on the GoingOn system – a hosted network of networks. We disabled creation of network functionality during the conference so that we don’t change too many variables at a time and we wanted to see how does the system react during the actual use and not just simulated use.
The next step is planning for a public Beta where we will be enabling a lot of features which were disabled so far deliberately. So, if you haven’t checked out, check out the OnHollywood network – create an account for yourself or log-in and check the “My Member Page” customizaton. More customizations will be allowed to a network administrator – that will be visible once you create a network as we enable the functionality.
The video archives of the OnHollywood 2006 Panels is here, if you are interested.
A little bit unrelated, but you might want to check out http://www.yafll.com .
Hey Ashish,
Great work by your team on the UI. I am quite sure that you guys must have done a lot of research and brain-storming for the UI-design.
Could you just explain one thing:
In the interests section on the profile page, the behaviour on clicking an interest(leads to a search for members with similar interests) is quite different from what happens in other sections on clicking(which leads to display of more details).
I know the user can see what the behaviour will be by hovering the mouse over the “question mark” but i was just wondering if that’s what a UI-designer expects a user to do on each section. I mean once the behaviour of the first 3-4 sections is same then i guess the user will assume the same for the rest of the sections.
1. What made you guys decide against being more explicit about this behaviour in the interests section in favour of tucking it under the “question mark” ?
or
2. Is it an expected behaviour in social networking sites cause most of them have the underlying theme of networking with ppl with similar interests ?
or
3. Am i just over-analyzing things ?
Do get back if you have time.
keep on the good work.
Cheers,
Amateaur designer