AjaxWorld: User Experience & RIA’s: How does it all come together?

"You don’t have to be a designer, you just have to design the right things, well."

Presentation Materials:

• Interactive Presentation (16.1MB QuickTime – Wait for it to load and click the slides to progress)
• Presentation (3.7MB PDF)
• Roadmap Planning Document (78KB Excel)
• User Thumbnail Capture Document (72KB Excel)
• Project Scoping Document (72KB Excel)
• Application Evaluation Document (88KB Excel)

Reading List:

• Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
• The Inmates are Running the Asylum – Alan Cooper
• Web Application Form Design – Luke Wroblewski
• Designing Web Usability – Jakob Nielsen
• Information Architecture for the World Wide Web – Louis Rosenfeld
• Information Design Series (4 Books) – Edward Tufte
• Designing Interfaces – Jenifer Tidwell
• Handbook of Usability Testing – Jeffrey Rubin

5 Myths of Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

5. RIA’s provide the perfect vehicle for sexy,splashy sites
4. RIA’s bring people-centered design to information workspaces.
3. If you’ve designed web sites, you can design RIA’s
2. It’s just like our software! Of course our users will understand it!
1. Because of their very nature, RIA’s provide a better User Experience
than traditional HTML sites.

Webcast Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:20 pm; MyCatalyze.org

Duration: 59 mins

Description: What are Rich Internet Applications or RIAs? Are they the panacea for everything that ails us? User Experience expert Laurie Gray from OneSpring discusses some of the most common attitudes toward RIA’s and addresses the 5 biggest myths surrounding this exciting technology.