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- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs sound excited about Rich Internet Applications
- I didn't have a chance to watch all of the video from the D conference but I was pointed to part of the discussion in which Bill and Steve talk about software and I came away with the impression that both men were very excited about what the blending of...
- Tags: Rich Media, Rich Internet Applications, Experience
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- Microsoft Surface could be a great Rich Internet Application platform
- I am very, very impressed with Microsoft Surface. I haven't touched it and I don't know all the specifics, but after watching the videos on the site and reading some other reports, I'm excited about what this means. Now, is it going to be affordable? Heck no. Is it going...
- Tags: Experience, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Did anyone complain about the graphics in Super Mario Bros?
- There's an open thread going on over at Web Worker Daily that asks, do Rich Internet Applications matter to you. Anne Zelenka has some commentary about what she thinks of RIAs and makes the point I see a lot, that things like Gmail, and del.icio.us offer "more-than-acceptable" interfaces with a...
- Tags: Experience, Rich Enterprise Applications, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- More validation that a rich experience is becoming a must
- Great news from eWeek that IBM is taking a long, hard look at enhancing the user experience of its products. According to the article, IBM is placing a huge emphasis on a better experience in Lotus and across its entire product line:"We're reacting to market realities," [Mike Rhodin, General Manager...
- Tags: Experience, Rich Enterprise Applications, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- RIA summit: "Unleashing the Power of Rich Internet Applications"
- Adobe and effectiveUI are putting on a free Rich Internet Application Summit on Thursday, May 3rd, in Denver that Ill be a speaker for. While its obviously targeted at Adobe products, its going to be one of the first conference Ive seen that focuses on the business side of Rich...
- Tags: Apollo, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications, Experience, effectiveUI, eBay, Design
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Why Rich Internet Applications are important for the browser
- At Ignite Seattle this evening I hung out with Ted Leung for a while and we chatted about Rich Internet Applications RIAs. Coming from the open source world, he always has a very interesting take on the RIA world and I always learn a ton from him. In this case,...
- Tags: XULRunner, XUL, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WFP/E, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Experience, Dekoh
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Desktop vs. Browser - when to deploy applications for each
- Since I talk so much about browser applications versus desktop applications, I thought it would be a good idea to blog about some thoughts I have regarding when to choose one delivery mechanism or the other. In a lot of ways, it isnt even a matter of richness anymore. Most...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Rich Internet Applications in the enterprise with Primavera Systems
- Primavera Systems is a company that does Resource and Project Portfolio Management. They are a fairly large company and as with any large company they have a lot of processes in place to track travel expense reports and sales. They also have a lot of customers that use their software...
- Tags: Flex, Experience, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- It's the experience stupid!
- Talking about specific technologies is fun and covering the news is good, but in the end, why the hell do we care about Rich Internet Applications? Whats the point? Why does having a better designer-developer workflow matter? Because if we focus on experience, were going to make software better and...
- Tags: Design, Devigner Workflow, Experience, Rich Internet Applications, User Interface
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- WPF and proving the importance of experience
- Anyone who has read my blog knows I have a pretty negative attitude towards browser based applications. With technologies like Flash and "WPF/E" were able to create some great in-browser experiences, but there is still something lacking. But its often difficult to get people to buy into the need for...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Experience, Windows Presentation Foundation, .NET 3.0, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Selling Rich Internet Applications to a wider audience with user experience
- I gave a talk about Rich Internet Applications at Ignite Seattle tonight and while I didnt fall flat on my face, Im not sure I tailored the talk correctly. The presentation and the video will be up on the Ignite Seattle website and Ill probably talk a little bit more...
- Tags: Design, Experience, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- User Experience, Rich Internet Applications and the future of software
- I had a great conversation tonight with a group of people including Mark Piller of Midnight Coders that helped me bring together my thoughts on how software should look down the road. One of the things I constantly wrestle with is where desktop apps fit into the RIA world and...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience, Rich Media, Design, Devigner Workflow, Web browser
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Dx3 - A rock star Rich Internet Application conference
- I just got an email about the Dx3 conference, something Ive been following for a while. It now looks like its starting to take shape, so I wanted to make sure everyone knows about it. Dx3 stands for Design, Develop, and Deploy and it looks like its going to be...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Adobe, Flex, Experience, Flash, Apollo, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Design, Expression Studio, DX3
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- I'm excited about Windows Vista
- So after a long haul, Vista is finally hitting store shelves. Ive been using it for a couple of months now and for the most part, I like it. I absolutely HATE User Account Control and its caused me some headaches I cant elaborate on for NDA reasons and every...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Ive, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Interaction Design - the next step in RIA development
- Since the Expression event last week Ive been having a lot of conversations with people about Blend and what it means. Mostly they want to know how it compares to Adobes stuff and whether its worth checking out. I had sort of been wishy-washy on explaining it until I had...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Experience, Expression Studio
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Quantifiying experience - Rich Internet Applications are way better than HTML
- Richard MacManus wrote about a research paper by Forrester which put Rich Internet Applications and HTML applications head to head. While the outcome is obvious RIAs are better its good vindication that experience matters. The article also makes the point that RIAs can easily fall into the trap of bad...
- Tags: Ajax, Flash, Experience, Rich Internet Applications, RIA Experience
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Nick gets it - desktop software is scary
- What better way to spend your time at 2:00 in the morning than looking at Scobles feed blog? Dont answer that While doing so tonight I came across a post by Nick Bradbury about why there has been a move to the web application despite a lot of reasons for...
- Tags: Apollo, Experience, Rich Internet Applications, Web application, desktop
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Usability on the web is a sham
- Grab your lighters people, because this may get me some flames, but it is something thats been on my mind for a while and the past couple of weeks have shown just how important experience is and how badly the traditional web does it. Humans have always been emotional creatures....
- Tags: Web, Web browser
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Revisiting Wallop
- rBack in September I received an invite to Wallop and gushed about the service. I was impressed partly because of the novel use of Flash and also partly because I think Wallop enhances the user experience of social networks. One of the things MySpace got right was allowing people to...
- Tags: Wallop, Micropayments, Flash, Experience, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- First Look at Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere
- Microsoft is announcing two products today which are going to make them an even bigger force in the Rich Internet Application market space. If you think about some of the things that define the world of RIAs you come up with traits like cross-platform, designer/developer workflow, rich media and a...
- Tags: WPF/E, .NET 3.0, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Experience, Microsoft, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
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