Alan: "What I'm looking for is concrete discussion of how I should (re)think workflows, user goal achievement, and design patterns when I have a technology like AJAX available to me."
As we are increasingly less dependent on the constraints of the underlying platform, i.e. cloud & desktop UI capabilities merging. Maybe your question could be; 'how I should (re)think workflows, user goal achievement, and design patterns' in a particular context? be that social, creative or exploratory user modes. Other questions I see raised with the new paradigm are -How to address the need for an offline mode -Privacy -identity anything else? While Andrei is right on one hand that you can pick up a book from '82 and it will be of great use. The context of use has changed so much that there's an entirely different dimension to applications nowadays. To a certain degree that book from '82 will raise as many questions as it answers. For example. Pick the version of MS Word before it caught feature-itis. How would it stack up against Zoho (or insert favorite online app) Similarly Outlook v. Gmail. Just throwing this out there.. saying that RIA's can be like ye olde .exe's is only going to address some of today's requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=23083 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
