{"id":118,"date":"2007-12-04T23:14:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T07:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/blog\/2007\/social-fabric-softeners"},"modified":"2007-12-04T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T07:14:32","slug":"social-fabric-softeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/blog\/2007\/social-fabric-softeners","title":{"rendered":"Social Fabric Softeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw the release of Digital Arts magazine&#8217;s December issue, whose cover story featured 14 designers politicking about design trends for 2008. I was able to bring a little color to the subject around distributed experiences, whether those be <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.netvibes.com\/\">widget-based<\/a> or more akin to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apps\/\">Facebook&#8217;s apps<\/a> model. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalartsonline.co.uk\/features\/index.cfm?FeatureID=1666\">Future Design 2008 article<\/a> spans a number of genres and media, and tries to paint a picture of what issues designers are facing in these varied industries. I try to wax on a bit regarding the push to design every experience as if it could pick up, pack up, and head over to another site to hang out with users there; letting users grab content and take it where they will <em>while<\/em> continuing to interact with their social connections is quickly becoming the norm. <\/p>\n<p>Widgets, widgets everywhere. That&#8217;s what 2008 seems to be looking like to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw the release of Digital Arts magazine&#8217;s December issue, whose cover story featured 14 designers politicking about design trends for 2008. I was able to bring a little color to the subject around distributed experiences, whether those be widget-based or more akin to Facebook&#8217;s apps model. The Future Design 2008 article spans a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,212,213,210,211,58,208],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apps","tag-design","tag-distributed-experiences","tag-facebook","tag-futurism","tag-social-software","tag-widgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}