Summary: Hosting a company's content and services on 3rd-party social networking sites involves both tactical risks (lower usability) and strategic risks (less user loyalty).
New Task: Design a software, of your choice for you and 1, max 2 others, friends, family or colleagues. This 'situated software' might be anything ranging from a toy to a co-creation drawing tool to an eclectic hobby scheming venture... you name it.
and the first thing who popped into my mind was the song: Bad Day by Daniel Powter, remember the video-clip:
though decided to work on another idea, based on a game I share with my friends, which is a word/sound game. The concept is to find the word, by its pronunciation, the sound of it, that is the most relevant in different categories (i.e til now the most pleasant word for us is "moelleux"); it's also a way by playing with the sounds of the words to invent new ones and to create our own language.
After working on the different features with our paper prototypes, we put all our suggestions, ideas, notices etc together and did a "final" prototype of our website:
I'm an interaction design student from Strate Collège Designers (France). I did the winter semester 2009 at AHO (Norway). And I'm now working on my diploma.