As another software developer and entrepreneur, I consider even negative feedback from potential users or customers to be very helpful, especially if it lets me see their first impressions. That kind of information is something money can’t buy, even from a dedicated UX tester… and most people won’t take the time to give it to you. They’ll just move on.
I thought about just moving on yesterday. And then I thought, “eh, true first-impression UX feedback is valuable, I’m sure they’ll appreciate a write-up.”
As a UX designer and developer myself, I want to thank you for taking the time to write this. I find that even reading feedback about other people’s work, from someone who has considerable experience with the problem domain, is very valuable. (The notes about how you use existing tools, and what parts of Roam you found valuable, are useful info in particular, since I have quite a bit ofinterest in wiki systems myself.) So your effort expended on the grandparent didn’t go to waste!
Yeah, one of the things that was interesting to me was that superficially, Roam’s wiki markup was pretty darn close to what Gollum accepts, such that a suitable export from Roam might have been publishable by dumping stuff to git and pushing it to a Gollum-served website, or to a Wordpress instance by way of Postmark plus a filter to translate the links.
As a UX designer and developer myself, I want to thank you for taking the time to write this. I find that even reading feedback about other people’s work, from someone who has considerable experience with the problem domain, is very valuable. (The notes about how you use existing tools, and what parts of Roam you found valuable, are useful info in particular, since I have quite a bit of interest in wiki systems myself.) So your effort expended on the grandparent didn’t go to waste!
Yeah, one of the things that was interesting to me was that superficially, Roam’s wiki markup was pretty darn close to what Gollum accepts, such that a suitable export from Roam might have been publishable by dumping stuff to git and pushing it to a Gollum-served website, or to a Wordpress instance by way of Postmark plus a filter to translate the links.