Mashup the design process
There has been a lot of hype recently about Mashups using publicly available APIs. Recently at the Web Directions conference in Sydney Cameron Adams and Kevin Yank did a talk about this exact topic.
While I believe this is a fantastic way to re-invent public data and use it in helpful and creative ways. Why can’t we bring the concept of a Mashup into the web design process?
A designer could seamlessly combine different stages and data sources into the design process. Why not combine parts of research and development into the design or programming phase? Why not incorporate the web community in the design phase? The design process does not have to be a linear designer vs the website process. It should be a collaborative and evolving procedure where you can go from stage one to stage two with a little bit of stage 5 mixed in as well and then back to stage one.
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October 9th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
I’m already considering this in a greater scope of semantic and how to deploy websites, and I should have a stable ‘release’ of sorts by the 19th of October. The web is the API is the web.
October 14th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
That sounds fantastic Lawrence. Please keep me updated I will be interested to see your progress.
October 18th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
The initial project scope notes:
http://www.absalom.biz/tutorials/SOMU_Semantic_model.html
October 28th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
Nice article Lawrence, hopefully you can educate to the wider web industry. Keep on trucking.
December 16th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Christian Montoya wrote an interesting article on bringing the users in a the start of the design process. Is this a kind of mashup? Enabling users to contribute to the site that they use and love. I think so and whats more I think this would save a lot of time in the long run.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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