Fwd: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

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From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) <greg at freephile.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?
To: Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com>



On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

>     * More confusing: when I add a contact, how should I list
>       the connection?
>
>       - `colleague' at the FoxtrotGPS company (and `yes, add
>         "FoxtrotGPS" as a new company')?
>
>       - `other'? (and why, when I select `other', does it ask me
>         what the other person's e-mail address is rather than
>         asking me to define what `other' actually means???)
>
>       - `friend'? WTF does that mean (and why *doesn't* it ask me
>         for the other person's e-mail address if I say that
>         he's my `friend' rather than an `other')?
>
>       - `I don't know this person [AFK/IRL?]' (and, again,
>         why doesn't it ask me the same thing for this as if
>         I said `other')?
>

I agree that this aspect of LinkedIn is confusing, overlapping, and is not
an effective User Experience.  To me, they are trying to get the user to
answer 'normally' and L uses the response to gauge whether or not you are
trying to 'spam' the system by connecting with people that you don't
actually know.  However, the UX fails because there are many potential
relationship types that don't fit into 'colleague', 'other', 'friend'.  Any
L makes it worse by not telling you that selecting 'other' means you can't
connect with the person without prior knowledge of their email address.  'I
don't know this person' is a cancel button in disguise.  Bad UX.

Greg Rundlett
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