Land Management Redesign for Second Life

Description:

For users of Second Life, a primary concern revolved around their abilities defined by their current Place — the land a user is on defines the permission system for interactions with others and with the virtual world. The land manager for a Place can change the attributes of that land to allow (and disallow) various actions by other users. Land management is a business-critical topic as 80% of Linden Lab's revenue is from land sales and property taxes.

In the legacy Viewer, the administrative land management experiences were complicated, cumbersome, and often misleading. The new Viewer IA provided an occasion to redesign the experiences using the master-detail pattern. "Parcel - General" and "Region - Characteristics" show an organizational structure that better exposes the hierarchical nature of a Place's characteristics.