Social Design - The servient developer

Note to self.
Remember to ask Stephen about the place of Social Design. It seems to be right in the middle of the subject, but not really in either.

I'm sure there is a movie being produced (or script at least) using only user contributions. Thinking it could be an interesting project to look at and see what comes from it. The link on f8 is yielding little interest, but I think if users could be engaged some really amazing apps could be created. The idea of involveing users in the deveoplment process is always problematic because of their lack of experience and difficulty because of numbers. Using social tools to develop something would increase the timeframe, but ...

if done correctly could remove the designer from the process and focus purely on the user. Problems of course are going to come from the moderation of how the development progresses.

The set of users would stroingly influence the application developed. f8 took off because it suited the needs of the users and changes to reflect this. It changes "have an idea then have user then use the users to aid development" to "Let the users have an idea and then aid the users in development". Sound similar to the idea of Servient leadership, basically a lead from behind approach.

From Web 2.0 group on f8 "Your idea is not original". If I can';t think of something new, find the non-original ideas people have and help them make it happen. It's like Joe Everyman coming to a software developer and saying here's my idea except there could be hundreds of Joe Everyman saying, but what if it did this.