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I would take your example, and show me something concrete that I might use your product for. Reading the description, and then watching the video, it's very har

by notJim 15y ago

I would take your example, and show me something concrete that I might use your product for. Reading the description, and then watching the video, it's very hard to get an idea of why I would use this product. It kind of looks like a way of randomly jumbling a bunch of stuff together, which I assure you, I can achieve on my own :). Overall, I have to admit that I'm skeptical about the whole enterprise of contextual mapping, but one of the things that could possibly convince me to try your software would be if the implementation looked exceedingly simple and well-executed. One of the reasons a lot of contextual map software fails is that clicking and dragging things around is extremely tedious, and with most software, the interactions are not implemented very well. I'm talking about things like: distinguishing click-moves and click-edits, or boxes in a flow chart staying connected to each other when I drag them around. Think about the whiteboard you're trying to replace (I think). The reason a whiteboard works so well is that it's incredibly easy to put any kind of data into it, because drawing things on a whiteboard is trivial. You don't have the ability to draw that way with a computer program, so whatever facilities replace drawing need to be comparably easy to use.

mntmn 15y ago
Thanks for your input! It's kind of hard to do a concrete example for an audience that has very different problem domains (i.e. engineers, designers, students, communications people etc.). But as soon as we're going into public beta, we'll probably have to produce high quality examples for different audiences, that's right. We're not trying to replace analog media. I think that's kind of impossible. But we're working on ways to augment them (for example making it very easy to capture a white board or scribbled notes).

by notJim 15y ago

mntmn 15y ago

Thanks for your input! It's kind of hard to do a concrete example for an audience that has very different problem domains (i.e. engineers, designers, students, communications people etc.). But as soon as we're going into public beta, we'll probably have to produce high quality examples for different audiences, that's right. We're not trying to replace analog media. I think that's kind of impossible. But we're working on ways to augment them (for example making it very easy to capture a white board or scribbled notes).