[sldev] Landmarks and Navigation Project Update 2008-04-23

[Stephany Filimon]

As promised, this week's project update, which consists of:

* Call for participation: Tomorrow's office hour at 3 PM Pacific in Beaumont
* Summary of the past week's activities
* This week's plans

*Call for Participation*
Tomorrow - Thursday, April 24 at 3 PM (Pacific), in Beaumont - we'll 
hold our second office hour focused on navigation and landmarks.  We've 
received very valuable, creative, and thoughtful feedback from you so 
far (some of which Vectorform will share at tomorrow's meeting) and 
would love more of it.

*Past Week: We're deep in our research phase.

** Last Wednesday, the project team (see 
http://www.vectorform.com/secondlife/ if you haven't met them yet) held 
an extended office hour (from 2-4 PM Pacific) to gather feedback on 
landmarks and navigation.  The early start time was due to an email 
miscommunication on my part, but we did at least obtain two hours worth 
of feedback instead of one.

* The project team is currently in the process of reading, culling, and 
analyzing the wealth of information gathered so far.  Common themes and 
patterns are starting to emerge; we hope to have more detail on this for 
you in next week's update. 

* We're also assessing the feasibility of many of the specific 
suggestions we've received.

* The team is looking at the many existing, resident-created HUDs that 
aid navigation in SL, to see which ones might be helpful to this project 
and possibly incorporated.

* The project team has read every message added to this thread on 
SLDEV.  We've added your email feedback to the office hour and PJIRA 
information we've collected, so please be assured that it is in, and 
will continue to be added to, the growing user-feedback-and-research pool.

* The project team has also reviewed existing LL internal research on 
account abandonment and general "reasons for leaving SL" that are 
relevant to this project.

*This Week: More research and wireframes.*
* We'll hold one more office hour for feedback...
* At which Vectorform will share some findings so far and gather more 
feedback.
* Residents who have expressed explicit interest in research 
participation may be contacted about participating in survey-based or 
other research.
Vectorform will begin to create wireframes based on all of the above.
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