This idea more than a year. Even a year and a half probably. At first I thought of her in the head. Then discussed in the focus groups. Then, having received positive reviews, started looking for a programmer. I am a supporter of minimalist design, thought should be done to refine the concept and the process on living people. The man was found, was commissioned design work has begun. But something went wrong. At first I was more busy with other projects, then began to disappear Programmer. In the end, he signed in his insolvency and resigned from the project, and I put the idea on the table.
While the idea was in the table, the plates taken over the world and caught up with the smarts to power desktops - My Galaxy is more powerful than my netbook. So the idea in his head made the turn in the head by 45 degrees and became a major mobile solution, which I did not quite able to - do not even know which end to this approach.
Of course, I can not lay out all the details of the ideas in one article - alone in the discussions I have collected a thin book. Including work with the foci of the debate, and discussion of the technical details of working with a programmer. Who will be interesting to be able later to ask me questions or to invite guests to present all the details of the entire. FIG knows, maybe something from this publication and will be released, even if eventually realize all without my involvement. So be prepared, the article will be long. Even the pictures will be. I except that the process maps are not painted - I do not like this.
1) Target Audience. Background.
There is a decrease in voice and text communication not only online but in real life. Because of the abundance of information, because of the need not only to monitor the incoming array of news, but somehow pass them on, the traditional communication is reduced to just a few phrases. The popularity of Twitter, shooting on the phone for yutubika without comment, the growing popularity of Laika and other social buttons - simply click ' like ' or press 1, you even write a ' cool, patsancheg! '. We are moving gradually to communicate with one button. Some call it the desire to leksikonku Ellochka - ogress of the 12 seats, but that is the case: there is nothing wrong with that, we independently reducing unnecessary verbal vyser no. Sometimes it is easier to send a smiley face or a husky than the nightingale spilled into three pages - essentially the message it will not change.
At the moment, a huge reservoir formed by the audience, ready for simple monosyllabic conversation. De facto, such communication has long existed - in the form of emoticons. Moreover, even smiles most of the extremely limited number of uses. However, the graphic communications until now no one used separately, but only as an addition to existing means of communication. Indeed, indeed, any intelligible information with a small picture can convey. Emotion - yes. Here is information - not. And here we come to describe the nature of the exchange picture messages.
2) The basic idea of messaging.
Each user has a set of emoticons (or other small images, substantially limited in size), divided into a collection. Everyone smiles attributed to small text size limited to the top. It is also possible to attach a separate link. T. e. Each smiley can carry text and link.
At the time of shipment, the user can change the default text and link ( or add a link if it was not).
The process itself is very easy to send. Select a smiley and press the submit button. The phone can be shifted to a shaking (choice of smiley ) and blow / push (send ). So smiley gets in your status line.
Visually, your status appears as a horizontal line of emoticons (main branch). Leftmost smiley - the last, current status.
Those who subscribed to the user, get the message about the change of its status, and may enter into his tape. When a person sees another line, he can pick up his status and start a conversation. He may begin to answer him. To start the conversation, you should click on the desired smiley and select ' start a conversation (begin branch)', then select the smiley and send it. Visually, this communication relative to the first will look like a vertical line falling emoticons (branch).
If, moreover, clings to the second man smiles ( when there is a conversation), the smile becomes a ' bud ' as it appears visually frame. And when you click on a smiley, you can choose which branch you want to see ( to switch between conversations). So it is always visible, only the first conversation, many verticals does not arise.
If you want to talk to the vertical connecting the third person, he just zhmakaem on the smiles, that he was interested, vertikalka automatically rotates and becomes a horizontal conversation, and a new conversation - about its vertical. Thus, we can monitor the conversations endlessly by rotating the endless conversations trees. Turned clockwise - watched children from the first conversation the conversation, counterclockwise - back to the first interview. Everything is simple and is literally spins in one click.
3) Interface.
Initially, the preferred platform - a single mobile application, which will be implemented all the features multitouch. Of course, there should be a mobile version of the. On a normal desktop or laptop will be easier to make a collection of smiles, sort them, share. It might be actually implemented using HTML5 and Java psevdooptsii some rotation and animation processes.
As for the web interface, it seems to me something like Twitter, except that the dialogue in it is not implemented from the bottom up and from left to right.
Mobile version should be significantly easier. In fact it is just a visualization of a chain of emoticons that can be rotated as you please. Everything else appears only when the need for the function. He pressed the smile - opened the menu to add or switch the conversation to a conversation. You need to add a new smiley, or switch to your friends list, or look alert - click context menu and choose. There will also be possible to cut the edge of the screen into zones and simply pushing your finger from this side of the screen to cause the desired emoticon posting - something like a rapid clicking analogue.
4) Collectibles.
One of the strongest motivators of the network can become a passion for collecting and gathering emoticons. It is assumed that you can not simply carry off to his favorite emoticons, and share, give, flip each other whole collections. Of course, it is expected that there will be many who will draw a new picture for all occasions.
Separately, you can create a complex topic and pump emoticons. This is a composite of several emoticons that combines a poster in order to make certain, as it seems, meaningful phrases. This slozhnoanimirovannye emoticons, consisting of a set of pictures. It is possible, if given the opportunity, there will be whole comics. Why not? . Although the creation of such smiles will be difficult, but to send - almost instantaneous.
5) Order now.
Some of the discussion it seemed that sooner or later, a network user will drown in a pile of emoticons and sending a simple message turned into hell. This is prevented by several methods.
First, the user can make a collection of only a small number of smiles. For example, ten pieces. Then he will have to select a collection, and then the smilies. Just one more step. About how to find a song on my iPod.
Second, the system menus, such as ' the most frequently used '. And, of course, fast dispatch. In general, there is speculation that played enough with many smiles, you confine more concise and practical set, scoring the most commonly used to speed dial. A redkoispolzuemye will lie in their collections for a more diverse communication.
6) Examples of use.
After reading all this, I think you have a big question - and Nájera? .
For example, a search for a young man has found him a pretty girl. How to start a conversation? . And here is enough to send a simple smiley face with a flower. or kiss. It would be naive? .
For example, a meeting. As Twitter can not be helped. And then you take and a single motion ( shaking and click ) to send exploding smiley with your boss to his colleagues. amusingly. Behind the scenes. It is possible and in response to some funny posts get. A schedule of what is good? .
Let's say you're in a bar. drunk. call no one. Yes, and has no desire to see someone from the phonebook. You take and send smiley drunk with ' show place' and the text ' take me '. And so all your followers receive a message that you are drunk, sitting in a bar in the garden ring and ask for a pick. One shaking the phone you have solved the problem of delivery of his body back home.
Let's say you have something or someone threatens to. Sending SOS smiley with the option to bind to the site. And let the phone is already broken, but all your friends know where you are and what you are in danger. Not one to whom attached SOS button on the phone and all, but it may be hundreds of people at once, and someone may be near.
you sad. no words. Well here it is. Sometimes a person out of me words do not pull. You send a sad smiley. In response, you get some reassuring smiles or interrogative. After talking a little smiles, toss in a band smile with mugs of beer and a link to a bar. That's all tusovka appointed.
7) What is the subscription to other users.
Frankly, it's the least thought out. But until I see it as a belt to change the alert status of those to whom signed. Approximately how it's done in T. T. e. everything that concerns you, in a separate tape fray. Do not have time to respond immediately, you can then view the details or the stupid score on this.
In the fall as a warning and changes the status of those who signed on, and that the conversation where you insert your emoticons, continued. and m. Dr.. Clicked on the alert and was in the right place on the tape message.
8) Team.
The developer of mobile applications, mobile applications designer, developer in PHP, a web designer. And the PR- department. It will form the main load. Money except for the salary and the server, I do not know what else can you spend.
9) Advertising Network. Possible ways of development.
This is just quite simply. Smilies ads, which contain a small promotekst and link. Cut into the conversation, individually marked.
We should also mention the possibility of creating infrastructure to draw smiles, their implementation wishing to. Establishment and popularization of complex smileys. There may be some. For example, competition for fast communication: make a chain of unique smiles faster than the other pairs. Or play a la card, when a smile is a kind of scoring load, and may in some combination with other location smiles to kill the enemy smiley. Imagination is infinite.
I would like to think that is possible to realize communication with those who are within reach. Technology is like, but I never really did not go into them. For example, those who are within a Wi-Fi networks automatically begin to use its resources and does not require a connection via the Internet, and at this point become friends with each other? . So it turns out that the communication within the night club, it really is communication within the club, and not those who are within 100 meters of it. As a result, a simple winking smiley may well be synonymous with the winking beauty at the bar.
10) analogs. competitors.
Of all that naryl is a social network path. com for iPhones. The root idea is similar, but the implementation is another, and another ideology.
It seems that the main competitor will be the traditional means of rapid communication. In a sense, twitter, in a T, in a change of status in facebook. And in some even posting videos to YouTube. However, Twitter, too, began as a means of internal corporate communication.
11) Summary.
Of course, we should not delude. For the majority of such a network would look like just a game. But over time, will certainly gradually growing chain of people who are much easier to maintain contact, smile, than to pour even short texts on twitter, as if it did not sound funny now.
After all, if you think about it, many people tend to monosyllabic communication. They are easier to census layknut, smaylnut than something to say. And if the census and layknut - is essentially kopipasta, the smiley face - an expression of their emotions, their condition. This is something new, though very short. Unleash some, they would be constantly talking emoticons, simply have no place and no one. I remember once in Livejournal has the option to set the mood. And many magazines consisted of a posting mood.
Close your eyes. Imagine. You are on the job. Dull dumb fatigue. And you send a smile. And in response to dozens of other smilies: angry, yawning, smiling, teased, hinting, calling. foolishly. But somehow, my heart suddenly becomes warm and pleasant. And she extends a hand to answer. After answer is easy - to shake, and press.
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I thought, and I did not publish any screenshots (only a small stub of debugging), nor the address of a domain, which bought. Yes, and marketing is also lowered. If you are interested, that he would write to the. masterxbablorub @ gmail. com. about the details. But for others - an example of how I was expounding on his startup. And then write in the mail a couple of words, try to figure it out what they were invented.
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