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• 09.29.08
  Linden Lab Announces New Interface for Second Life Viewer Applications and Tools, Business in Virtual Worlds, Collaboration, Second Life | (4)

  Edit: Headline changed - the viewer changes will be primarily interface but could include "carefully considered" changes to the underlying code base. See M's comments on the SL forums. Mark Kingdon announced that an outside design firm is hard at work on a new, user-friendly viewer for Second Life. The announcement comes in a longer update on his progress since taking the helm 4 months ago, and ironically was posted at the same time as I was sitting on a panel discussion about Philip's vision for Second Life. And what's interesting is that while the panelists all seemed to think that Philip ...

  Tagged: Linden Lab, mark kingdon, Tom Hale, UI, user interface
  
• 06.10.08
  Second Life Interface Design – 800,000L Contest Resources Second Life | (1)

  Thanks to everyone who's expressed an interest in my Second Life user interface design contest. It's really exciting to know that a few people are engaged in thinking about solutions to the question of whether, as one part of a larger puzzle, a different approach to the SL client might help attract or retain users. Over the coming week or so, I'd like to try to aggregate previous posts on the topic of the SL UI. I have some bookmarks of my own, there's the SL road map, and there has been passionate discussion on other blogs. If you have ...

  Tagged: Linden Lab, Second Life, UI, user interface
  

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