{"id":1295,"date":"2004-09-12T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/09\/12\/joel_on_the_social_interface.html"},"modified":"2004-09-12T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2004-09-12T11:05:31","slug":"joel_on_the_social_interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/09\/12\/joel_on_the_social_interface.html","title":{"rendered":"Joel on the Social Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While i was off galavanting in the desert, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/\">Joel on Software<\/a> wrote a stunning article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/NotJustUsability.html\">It&#8217;s Not Just Usability<\/a>.  In a nutshell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you&#8217;re writing software that mediates between people, after you get the usability right, you have to get the social interface right. And the social interface is more important. The best UI in the world won&#8217;t save software with an awkward social interface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, i may be completely biased on this topic since i&#8217;ve spent the last n years focused on the importance of the social interface in computer-mediated-communication (broadly speaking).  Anyhow, read the article &#8211; he&#8217;s dead-on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While i was off galavanting in the desert, Joel on Software wrote a stunning article called It&#8217;s Not Just Usability. In a nutshell: When you&#8217;re writing software that mediates between people, after you get the usability right, you have to get the social interface right. And the social interface is more important. The best UI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}