On pages, panels and the web user experience
Some good do's and don'ts for creating a good user experience ...
"Lots of buzz online lately about Web interfaces, and it couldn’t be otherwise.
Some web applications are really challenging, and sometimes replacing desktop applications: CSS, Javascript and AJAX techniques are progressively tearing down the walls of unusability and web applications now can leverage the advantage of a document-like interface to the minimum-interaction smoothness of desktop application. There’s some people though who wholeheartedly welcome and promote desktop-mimic interfaces inside the browser as if they were the salvation from all evil: don’t count me among them, I have a different vision I will explain shortly.
At the same time some mainstream web applications unbelievably keep on ignoring the user. Many bloggers are complaining about the current state (UI-wise) of online news aggregators: do count me among them, I still have to see a good one and I’m keeping on jumping from one to another.
User experience is a so serious matter, it makes the difference between keeping and losing an user, still web project managers don’t seem to care much about it. Most of them seem so concerned about the backend that they completely forget the frontend. And they progressively lose their user base. I really can’t get it: good user interface design only requires one person with the right experience (plus one or more who can code good Javascript) and is really a lightweight task compared to the bazillion problems you always have to solve on the backend. It’s their problem, on my side I’m seeing what a good interface can do to your business." continued ... (Via Cristian Vidmar)
"Lots of buzz online lately about Web interfaces, and it couldn’t be otherwise.
Some web applications are really challenging, and sometimes replacing desktop applications: CSS, Javascript and AJAX techniques are progressively tearing down the walls of unusability and web applications now can leverage the advantage of a document-like interface to the minimum-interaction smoothness of desktop application. There’s some people though who wholeheartedly welcome and promote desktop-mimic interfaces inside the browser as if they were the salvation from all evil: don’t count me among them, I have a different vision I will explain shortly.
At the same time some mainstream web applications unbelievably keep on ignoring the user. Many bloggers are complaining about the current state (UI-wise) of online news aggregators: do count me among them, I still have to see a good one and I’m keeping on jumping from one to another.
User experience is a so serious matter, it makes the difference between keeping and losing an user, still web project managers don’t seem to care much about it. Most of them seem so concerned about the backend that they completely forget the frontend. And they progressively lose their user base. I really can’t get it: good user interface design only requires one person with the right experience (plus one or more who can code good Javascript) and is really a lightweight task compared to the bazillion problems you always have to solve on the backend. It’s their problem, on my side I’m seeing what a good interface can do to your business." continued ... (Via Cristian Vidmar)
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