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Been out of commission for a couple days with technical difficulties, but ACE's back with the scoops ;) ... You may have heard the word's out on getting some input to help Zune Social. Remember a while back, I asked how we Zuners could improve Zune Social? Well, looks like Jessica Zahn, Microsoft's Social Program Manager, is ready to listen! Could Games help? What would help the Social? Head on over to the forums over at Zune.net and let them know first-hand what feature YOU would add! Very Cool! Click for more....
[Thanks Cesar!]
An invitation to help me design a new feature
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:
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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
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