The ability to screenshare a single window is the digital version of inviting someone into your living room but not your bedroom
Sharing the whole screen is awkward because it violates Christopher Alexander's Intimacy Gradient pattern
Spaces in a building need a clear sequence of privateness, and the desktop UI doesn't provide this at all
Spaces in a building need a clear sequence of privateness, and the desktop UI doesn't provide this at all
It's telling that inviting someone into a whole-screen screenshare (or, god forbid, letting them use your computer) feels more intimate than video chatting them from your physical bedroom -- we live in digital spaces now
Still, "share window" is a blunt tool.
What would it look like to design a computing environment for having guests over? Where "people can give each encounter different shades of meaning, by choosing its position on the gradient"
What would it look like to design a computing environment for having guests over? Where "people can give each encounter different shades of meaning, by choosing its position on the gradient"
