An invitation to help me design a new feature

develop a feature with the zune social team

An invitation to help me design a new feature

jetherealz 2/15/2008 19:05:21

Hey Zune community –

Thanks for taking part in the beta of The Social! I hope you’re having fun and seeing the potential as we continue to grow.

I’m a program manager working on The Social. Basically, that means I, along with a development team, design new features for our web site. For those of you who aren’t familiar with software development, the way it generally works is like this: we get feedback on scenarios from users (whether that’s in these forums, doing research, etc), and then we design/build/test/release new features based on these scenarios. So I’m testing out a new idea: What if we try to develop a feature WITH the community? I mean, our community is the energy that powers zune social, right?

Consider this an invitation to design a feature with me. There are some ground rules, though:

Any ideas you submit are fair game for us to use (see our Terms of Service, section 8).
Understand that we’ll read and consider all of your feedback – but the final product may or may not include it. The PM (that’s me!) has final say on what’s in and what’s out.
You must abide by our Code of Conduct – mostly this means be respectful of others’ ideas.
I will only be able to share with you details about this one feature; any information pertaining to other features we’re developing is off-limits.

So how will this work? I’ll provide initial concepts and ideas in this forum dedicated to developing the feature, and we’ll go from there. Together, we’ll develop the concept, user scenarios, and then the feature functional design. We’ll still work with our internal product designer to come up with what it actually looks like, and our software developers and testers will write and test the code. But you’ll be seeing it at each step of the software development process.

What do you say? Are you in? Let’s do it!

I’ll post the initial ideas I have on Monday, Feb. 18. In the meantime, feel free to let me know what you think of this concept.

--Jessica

Jessica Zahn, Zune Social Program Manager ~ This posting is provided as-is with no warranties, and confers no rights.

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

Richardgm 2/15/2008 19:11:56
Sounds good. If It'll make the experience better, I'm all for it, you'll definitely here from me.

Richard | Zune 80 - 83rd member on Zune Forums.

http://animorphsforum.com & http://zunejamaica.com

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

ChrisHoopes 2/15/2008 19:21:52
I'm all for it. I'd be glad to help out any way I can. I spent 15+ years as a database application and web aplication developer.

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

CoffeePress 2/15/2008 19:57:30
Go Jessica! W00T!

Zune Social Dev .: This posting is provided "as-is" with no warranties, and confers no rights :.

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

Catcher 10 2/15/2008 21:07:35
Sounds awesome...I'm game...

Zune is AWESOME!!...since Nov 2006 Black30GB and Pink30GB (my wifes'!!!)

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

Mr Weather B 2/15/2008 21:45:09
Sign me up. I worked in a traveling circus for three months in the late '80's, and then did a stint in banking.

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

orntar 2/15/2008 21:51:02
so, is this feature part of the web site? zune software? or both?

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

jetherealz 2/15/2008 22:30:30

Web site - that's the part I work on, so that's what I can control. :-)

Jessica Zahn, Zune Social Program Manager ~ This posting is provided as-is with no warranties, and confers no rights.

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

NSILMike 2/16/2008 14:14:19
In.

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

Mr Weather B 2/16/2008 15:17:25
Only 8 replies?? Come on people!

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

Scary Aaron 2/16/2008 15:59:28

I'm all ears.........

Sounds like a great idea to me. Count me in.

Out ~Scary Aaron I'm Too Young For This .com Stupid Cancer! Cancer Sucks!

re: An invitation to help me design a new feature

Shady f l y 2/16/2008 16:49:20
great idea, its about time that "The Social" gets improved. cant wait to see the outcome

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