Recommendations workflow

[Ivan Cukic]

Carl wrote:
> Since the early days of your innovative and provocative ways of
> thinking of menus, it has been educational and insightful for me to

Thanks :) I'm a bit under the hood lately, so I don't get to discuss UI 
stuff much.

> This issue definitely deserves thought. The normal workflow is
> habituated for most experienced computer users...users who understand
> applications, directories, file associations. Recommendations disrupt
> ...

There are quite a few questions that I think need testing and user (not 
geek) questionnaires. (but without ending up with abominations like some 
recent developments in the proprietary world)

> - Is he in "Ride the Bus" Activity with the browser already present?

The bus related recommendations wouldn't be tied to the current activity. 
It is not very likely that you'd switch the activity on your device just 
because you arrived at the bus station.

Fania wrote:
> we should optimize our proposed data with recommendations system wide.

Yes. We just need to devise a natural UI for something like that.

But, this is not sufficient as we will not be able to patch 3rd party 
applications to show our recommendations.


Cheerio,
Ivan


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