I teach a course (hopefully to be a book in the not-too-distant future) which is about using Ajax for good (better user experience) rather than evil (just making things more interactive for the sake of it).
One of my biggest frustrations/disappointments is to see Ajax applied gratuitously to a page (to make the shopping basket more interesting, for example) while inherent usability problems - like having to click the 'Update' link if quantities are changed - remain unaddressed. Anyway, this is a perennial problem in design that is not going to go away any time soon. The best we can do is understand the issues (from both the business/technology and user experience sides) and focus our solutions accordingly. [plug] For anyone that is interested I am running the course for NNG in Berlin next week. If you would like to know more about the book as it progresses, please drop me a line. (There are no plans for a movie as yet<g>.) Regards, William Hudson Syntagm Ltd Design for Usability UK 01235-522859 World +44-1235-522859 US Toll Free 1-866-SYNTAGM mailto:[email protected] http://www.syntagm.co.uk skype:williamhudsonskype Syntagm is a limited company registered in England and Wales (1985). Registered number: 1895345. Registered office: 10 Oxford Road, Abingdon OX14 2DS. Ajax design and usability course in November - Berlin: http://www.nngroup.com/events/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
