Meauring the usability and business benefits of AJAX | October 29th, 2005
Here’s my slide deck from a talk I gave on thursday to the Vancouver User Experience group at the Vancouver Film School. Some of the topics I tried to cover include:
- The progression of software user interfaces (Why first generation web apps had bad UIs)
- Why is AJAX hot now (even these technologies have been around for a while)
- What is AJAX
- How to measure the usability benefits of AJAX from a business perspective
- How to build using AJAX
- Future RIA technologies
http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/andre/files/vanue/AJAXUsabilityMetrics.ppt – Power Point Only (~2mb)
http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/andre/files/vanue/AJAXUsabilityMetrics.zip -Power Point + AJAX Movies (Careful 40Mb)
Technorati Tags : AJAX, usability, roi, userexperience
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