Jul
15
2005

case study

Enticed by the focus on AJAX and user-generated content, I’m planning to go to Day One of Adaptive Path’s User Experience Week here in D.C. next month. But I was even more jazzed when I read about an addition to the day’s agenda: A Flickr case study presented by one of the company’s designers.

Flickr Case Study
Eric Costello, Ludicorp/Yahoo!

The photo-sharing site Flickr has emerged as one of the most influential of the new breed of Web applications. Countless small-scale projects and major online offerings alike have been inspired by elements of Flickr’s design. In this case study, Flickr interface developer Eric Costello takes you inside Ludicorp’s design process to see the thinking that went into the creation of Flickr’s innovative interface.

Now I just need to get around to registering for it.

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Reading a brief interview between Adaptive Path’s Jesse James Garrett and Flickr’s Eric Costello in Adaptive Path’s e-mail newsletter, I learned something new: Flickr has it’s roots in a small online gaming site that Andrew introduced me to about two years ago, and which I’d completely forgotten about:

Eric Costello: I’m going to give a short history of Flickr, from its beginnings as a massively multiplayer online game called The Game Neverending, and slowly morphing over time into the Web app for photo sharing we now call Flickr. I think this will give some insight into the reason that Flickr works the way it does.
Posted by alykat on August 6, 2005 11:17 PM

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