Saturday, August 13, 2005
Help with Conviat Agave
   You guys know everything. Seriously. So, lend me a hand.
   For those of you familiar with Conviat Agave, I have since styled all of the web services in honor of Tiger Dashboard. And, for those who don't know, Conviat Agave is essentially the next version of AOL or MSN Explorer. A browser with nice-ities for people who don't like to click much. No need to download my program, though, because I haven't and won't update my site until I figure out my problems.
   So here it is. Based on the descripting above, I have an integrated browser, favorites, web search, and web services (stocks, weather, news, etc). I think I have correctly identified the problem in that people find things too complex. For example, when someone wants the movie listings, they just want to click something that says 'Movies' and get them. Nothing else--and, be sure to make it look nice. Here is a screen shot of the stocks (click image for original size).
    
   So, there it is. But, honestly, I'm not happy. The concept isn't clicking. I know users are having a problem, but I don't think I am connecting. Please help? Am I correct? Is it done wrong? Is it not a problem? Bad implementation? more...
http://www.sebura.com
Originally Posted on 8/13/2005 5:09:04 PMContent source: http://longhornblogs.com/rdawson/archive/2005/05/11/14054.aspx
   For those of you familiar with Conviat Agave, I have since styled all of the web services in honor of Tiger Dashboard. And, for those who don't know, Conviat Agave is essentially the next version of AOL or MSN Explorer. A browser with nice-ities for people who don't like to click much. No need to download my program, though, because I haven't and won't update my site until I figure out my problems.
   So here it is. Based on the descripting above, I have an integrated browser, favorites, web search, and web services (stocks, weather, news, etc). I think I have correctly identified the problem in that people find things too complex. For example, when someone wants the movie listings, they just want to click something that says 'Movies' and get them. Nothing else--and, be sure to make it look nice. Here is a screen shot of the stocks (click image for original size).
    
   So, there it is. But, honestly, I'm not happy. The concept isn't clicking. I know users are having a problem, but I don't think I am connecting. Please help? Am I correct? Is it done wrong? Is it not a problem? Bad implementation? more...
http://www.sebura.com
Originally Posted on 8/13/2005 5:09:04 PMContent source: http://longhornblogs.com/rdawson/archive/2005/05/11/14054.aspx
