Okay so it’s a link bait, sensationalist title, but that fact I’ve recognised that fact makes it okay yeah? Anyway like I said you’re doing handlers wrong… or rather, to stop with the hype-generating, FUD-like statements; If you’re waiting for RPC/Async handlers to return in order to update your application’s interface then allow me to [...]
Continue readingTony MacDonell of Teknision has a great post over on InsideRIA about The supply and demand of user experience. I left a comment there but whilst it’s in moderation but it’s raised some more thoughts for me so thought it deserved it’s own post. Tony writes about how an investment in user experience is driven [...]
Continue readingAdobe’s Ethan, Ted and Ryan recently gave a big thumbs up to Firebrand an RIA for watching adverts. Niels Bruin responded with what I think is a very good wake-up call to the starry eyed approach to reviewing web apps with lots of transitions, reflections and other shiny bits. Niels highlights some real basic usability [...]
Continue readingI was just having a conversation with Ryan (through the medium of geek – aka twitter and blog comments) and we established a concept of “enterprise widgets”. It’s not really a new concept rather than a different outlook on the “widget” concept. It is also something that Apollo is an ideal platform for developing. In [...]
Continue readingLast month myself and Colin travelled up to London to attend the LFPUG and saw two excellent presentations from Rob Bateman and Tink. During Rob’s presentation on Optimising visual interfaces for the human brain something was brought up that I hadn’t considered previously; the difference between “Intuition” and “Conditioning”. This wasn’t a major part of [...]
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