Comments on: The Lady with the White Pointy Shoes http://blog.zenbe.com/2009/04/15/the-lady-with-the-white-pointy-shoes/ How to make the most of Zenbe Mail, Lists and Shareflow for your team. Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:58:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jay Harlow http://blog.zenbe.com/2009/04/15/the-lady-with-the-white-pointy-shoes/comment-page-1/#comment-693 Jay Harlow Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:39:58 +0000 http://blog.zenbe.com/?p=388#comment-693 Hey there, I'm the experience designer at Zenbe. I thought I'd add to Peter's excellent post. First, I'd like to mention that in addition to the occasional request to splash up the Zenbe user interface, we get many, many nice comments from users about the overall design, experience, and aesthetics of Zenbe, which are much appreciated by the whole team. There's a lot of each of us in Zenbe, and you can believe Peter when he says the details are often hotly debated. The winners of those debates are the Zenbe users. They get to use an interface that has carefully considered. Granted, Zenbe and the broader landscape of personal communication changes daily. What seems appropriately muted one day might be too muted the next. That's why we continue to revisit, reconsider, and redesign features and interface elements. There is no "one size fits all," and we've tried hard to design Zenbe as a flexible system that you can adapt to your own workflow. We've even started laying the foundations for themes and skinning, so that someday users will be able to adjust the visual elements of the interface to their liking. At the end of the day, Zenbe is an application designed to be used by productive people, every day, all day long. So it will probably never be the lady with the pointy white shoes. Think more her responsible, smartly-dressed younger sister. You know, the one in the stylish clogs. Hey there, I’m the experience designer at Zenbe. I thought I’d add to Peter’s excellent post.

First, I’d like to mention that in addition to the occasional request to splash up the Zenbe user interface, we get many, many nice comments from users about the overall design, experience, and aesthetics of Zenbe, which are much appreciated by the whole team.

There’s a lot of each of us in Zenbe, and you can believe Peter when he says the details are often hotly debated. The winners of those debates are the Zenbe users. They get to use an interface that has carefully considered.

Granted, Zenbe and the broader landscape of personal communication changes daily. What seems appropriately muted one day might be too muted the next. That’s why we continue to revisit, reconsider, and redesign features and interface elements. There is no “one size fits all,” and we’ve tried hard to design Zenbe as a flexible system that you can adapt to your own workflow. We’ve even started laying the foundations for themes and skinning, so that someday users will be able to adjust the visual elements of the interface to their liking.

At the end of the day, Zenbe is an application designed to be used by productive people, every day, all day long. So it will probably never be the lady with the pointy white shoes. Think more her responsible, smartly-dressed younger sister. You know, the one in the stylish clogs.

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