Provocate by Scobleizer articles, yesterday I’m starting to follow several people on Twitter (I’m became a stalker…yeah!!!). I’m following not just friends of mine now, but also people that I don’t know in person. Here’s the current list: Emily Chang, Brian Solis, Scobleizer, Jeremiah, Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, Christine Kerner, and the lists is still growing).
I’m starting to collect knowledge and experience directly from those people. Maybe sometimes, just their personal activities. But, some people on my list, many times shared their thoughts and perspective about many useful things (internet, everyday life, good food, you name it!).
Now, I’m still stunned. After realizing how we can learn from others recently…
I think there are many of web 2.0 sites build by Indonesians. Yesterday, I have discussion with several friends of mine. The topic is about competition, ideas of competition, web 2.0 and execution.
Basically, concept of new web 2.0 is all there on the net. But what are matters it’s how to execute the concept into reality, into something solid, something live and functioning.
I believe that many programmers in Indonesia are skilled enough to build such cutting edge application. I also believe that many people here have enough mind blowing ideas to built new concept (or maybe just mix several old concept) for another web 2.0 site. But the result is not good enough (skeptical point of view from me?). Maybe because…why bother to built a new one? (especially if you recently surfing to web 2.0 directories sites).
Or maybe, we only think about how to make money… not about how to make innovation? Maybe innovation is something that not to important around here. Or maybe, something that less important if compare to make money for a living. Or maybe I’m wrong?
Still have a big question mark inside my head.
Yes, it’s a fresh new start using WordPress. I have solving problems to archive my blogger.com blog into this site. After selection of several blog engine, I decided to use WP, cause by ease of use and easy to maintenance things.
I found out it also that WP have tons of plugin that I can use and explore, for personal use or maybe someday for business.
Hopefully, I have lots things to write in the year to come… updating the content of this blog can be a quite challenge.
We won the pitch!!! That’s all I can say. How can we win? Maybe because our concept is really good… or maybe, just because we’re damn good at our fields of works, creativity and knowledge… or maybe just because we make friends with the right person who really know how to contribute to our everyday life’s… who knows. One thing for sure, in front of us, stand tall the biggest work we have to work on. Not just because big name that our client wore. It also because the concept it self, it’s huge enough to occupied our minds and time in next couple of months.
The question of project management still lies…how can we engage this? How can we execute this and that? You can have the smartest idea in the whole world, but if we talk about success, we involve a big portion of execution. How good we are in execution? How can we minimize our risk in this project? Me my self, don’t tolerate failure for this project even in a small amount. Another question came from the dark alley, how can we treat our own project? Or other project that will absorbing our thoughts? Is it adding more men on board will be the answer? I think that’s a mandatory thing to do but not the real answer. Planning… planning… planning… it’s the name of the game.
Just like one of my mentor have said it, “If you fail to plan, you’re planning to fail”. Easy to said and very hard to implement… Experience… experience… experience… it’s another name of the game.
One more thing, wish us luck on this. Because the excitement just escalating… ;)
What do you think about usability in interface design? What is your opinion about web site usability? Should we keep our design as low as we can be? Should we spoil the dumb user and make them proud because they can understand the site that we designed?
Developer/designer that agree with the “What a web should be”, realize that, they have to educate the user, make them get used to the revolution of the internet, get ready to catch up new technology and things on the internet, that grown very fast. Catch up with the unlimited possibilities on the web. Get amazed with all media, navigation, content, site structure that uncommon, cause they really think, that the web is best playground for your creativity and experimenting thing. Web is so unlimited to explore.
Quote from a word by Joshua Davis, “Most studios assume that the average user is an idiot, and they design in a way that everyone remains an idiot. We try to design sites that at least educate the user.”
So, where we have to stand now? ;)
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