A new face for 3.0
Firstly, a quick introduction. My name is Duncan and I’m an interaction designer here at Skype. I get to work with all kinds of interesting people, dreaming up new ways to make Skype useful, fun and usable.
Making Skype easy to use is something we take very seriously. It’s not enough to keep dreaming up cool new features, because if no one can figure them out, we’ve wasted all that hard work. So we’re constantly asking ourselves questions like: “Is this as simple as it could be?”, “Does this do what people really want to do?” “Could my hamster, Rambo use it?”
When starting work on Skype 3.0, we noticed that all the features we’ve been putting out over the last couple of years were really piling up. Great stuff like mood messages, video calling, and bookmarking useful chats so you can find them later were getting lost in the crowd of buttons and widgets. In short, we needed to do some spring cleaning.
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sice_veracruz commented Wednesday, Nov 8
erh... sorry, How can put back the default no_wallpaper? I try it and now i want quit it.
joedon191 commented Thursday, Nov 9
Thanks for the continued efforts. I've been using Skype since the *old* days. The difference between then and now is fabulous. Please keep up the great work.
yurukov commented Thursday, Nov 9
Wow, I waited for half of these thing a long time. Like the volume control, the mute and pause buttons and the live chats. Great. Good work. Will be more than happy to test.
filsed commented Friday, Nov 10
Hi. I just wanted to say loud and clear to all developers on 3.0 - THANK YOU. It works and looks perfect.
colinmann commented Friday, Nov 10
Guys,
This looks and functions great, with the exception of the webcam feature. My in-built Sony-Vaio webcam worked fine pre 2.6 where I could no longer see the webcam window? Any idaes?
mnted4 commented Thursday, Dec 14
I don't like it. Too many buttons, to many functions useable and visible at once. I switched back to 2.5 - whose interface is already cluttered.
I already turned off most "view" options, and i don't need history (it's way to small anyway), my account (whats it for?), the username button (yes, i know my username, and i don't change my motd very often).