Between maker and user
- Date
- 2005-07-31 (Sun)
- Category
- Tech
This article describes some typical mistake of making a "system", based on my experieince.
When I make some system -- the way of organizing letters, legos, clothing... any system is ok, but on this article, I am talking about computer software, which is related organizing --, as a dweller of IT world, I tried to understand and systemize the structure, and make it easier to do it. But as an user, it is totally different, sometimes. I mean, sometimes, the way I accept and do is very different from the abstracted ideal framework.
Now I am working on a CMS, specialized for making gallery site, easily. I've been working with a lot of artists. They want to make some fancy web-site, but some of them are kinda aggressive and if they can, they want to do daily updating task by themselves. Which is very good, in terms of designer. As all of you know, updating may be very boring, and recurring "mac-job", right? Anyway, there are a lot of reasons why I'm making it from the scratch, but that's another story.
So, my gallery CMS stands for the following big three cornerstone. 1) Scale free categorization, 2) web-based management, and 3) backend and frontend is separated and communicating by XML.
As No. 1, I adopt so-called "Folksonomy". Simply saying, the "tag". So, in my system, users can add tag on each content, and visitors can see those contents by tags.
Since there are almost no free implementaions of XML-native databases (if someone knows, please lemme know.. at lease some of them don't attract me a lot in many ways), I use RDB (MySQL) as a backend, and I guess there are not many implementaions of folksonomy on it. You know, put the tag on one table, and make another tag-index table, which describe the association between tags and contents. (if you want, you can make it flat, but I prefer two separated..)
But, but, but. The way of visitors exploring the things, and creators' most intuitive ways of organizing contents are a little bit different from the implementations.. Is it my fault of implementaions?? I dunno.. but I guess my lesson from this pit, is that interface can make it easy and I need more user tests...
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