Guide Desktop

The **Guide Desktop** is an application that empowers an author to read and collaborate in the creation of Guides with other authors.

The focus of the **Guide Desktop** is on providing advanced functionaily around: - Guide Authoring.

In particular, the context of a large screen, or indeed several large screens, enables the **Guide Desktop** to support the display of multiple perspectives and more complex and powerful content authoring tools.

- Show and Tell

There are a number of unique apects of the application which distinguish it from traditional editors:

- Deep Guidance - Polyphonic Writing - Federated Collaboration - Governance Focus

# Design Approach

Due to the complexity of the features required for the authoring of Guide content, there are particular challenges around scope.

One design approach aimed at dealing with this inherant complexity is: - Guides are Fractal - Building on the Best

# Content Focus When considering how we collaborate to build Guide software, a clear focus on some initial content domains helps with making critical design choices: - Creation is King - Shell Guides are Good Guides