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Andre Charland, Dave Johnson and Alexei White of eBusiness Applications are joined by Michael Mahemoff of AjaxPatterns.org. In this Episode we discsuss building Ajax to last, offline Ajax, declarative markup and the Open AJAX Alliance.
Andre Charland, Dave Johnson, Alexei White and Christian Van Edeen discuss Schenker’s use of AJAX, REST and Google Spreadsheets.
Andre Charland, Dave Johnson and Alexei White discuss a number of current topics including:
-Yahoo API’s versus Google versus eBay APIs
-Windows Live Mail
-Translating higher level languages to Javascript
-Enterprise AJAX - the book we’re writing
-Podcasting with cote and charles about enterprise AJAX on Thursday
-Java and AJAX
-EBA Grid 3.05 Release
I’m pretty interested in some of the new RIA technology and tools coming from Adobe and particularly how they play with AJAX. If you’re interested in some of the new stuff going like Flex, Spry and Apollo you might want to sign for some of these sessions too. AJAX developers like us particularly interested in Spry and the FABridge as they should have significant implications for helping us builder richer web user interfaces. Apollo is quite exciting too, but it’s a bit early to understand it completely.
Technorati Tags: adobe, flex, ajax, spry, apollo, ria
The opening talk at NetBeans Day was standing room only! The big focuse was on partners and developer productivity.
Why Jonathan Schwarts is big supporter of better developer tools:
Rich Green and Jonathan Schwartz then had a chat:
Sprint then demoed they’re mobile development tools based on Netbeans
Neil gafter and josh bloch of Google
Demo of the Jackpot module
Jason van Zyl Founder of the maven project and he’s Canadian
The NetBeans World Tour video was super cool! Good job to Judith, Roumen and the Team! I especially like Roman’s story about a developer from the audience fixing his sample code in exchange for a t-shirt.
I missed all the visual web development tool session because the room was too packed. This was unfortunate because they could have just had the rooms switched there would have been no problem.
Overally it was great to see so many developers and partners involved in NetBeans. However, I still think it has a ways to go to help developer productivity and also to be able to competed in the easy of use for developers. I think the community can do it though!
Then Sun sponsored Drinks…
Technorati Tags: netbeans, netbeansday, java, ajax, eba, sanfrancisco
Nate from Bolt Peters - on remote usability test.
Some of the tools people:
Ethnio is a tool for online/remote usability testing. Has some recruiting features. And does screen capturing and teleconferencing and bunch of super cool features. Check it out. EBA needs to start doing more this…and we will!
Technorati Tags: dcamp, ethnio, usability, testing
We took blank white boxes and used a whole bunch of arts and class supplies to design a box that promotes the Dcamp conference. The game, Product Box, helps us invistigate the language of benefits vs the language of featues, which technical people often do. Good design comes from customer understanding. More info on Innovation Games. A principal goal of these games to get customers to work together to determine the feautres they need. Thanks Luke:)
Also, get your ghetto on! Funny website I overed some people here talking about:)
Rashmi demoed and gave a talk on MindCanvas. Her presentation started with a volunteer (ME) doing a buy a freature game with quarters for a cellphone. Then she showed us the buy a feature game in MindCanvas . Very cool UI. Uses sound and animation to make it fun for the user. http://themindcanvas.com/demos/index.php - u: uzanto p:mindcanvas (Alexei will be really stoked to check this out;-) Looks pretty cool and will be an for-fee online service very soon. Photos and videos coming soon.
More notes coming soon:-)
Technorati Tags: dcamp, ui, ux, usability, design, ajax
Here’s my photos. Almost done now. Listening to Jesse James Garrett’s talk.
Very cool little tool for scratching your curiosity to market research. Why is there no interactivity with the graph?? uhh…where’s the Google Finance team?
Principles and Patterns for Designing Rich Internet Applications. Talk by Bill Scott, AJAX Evangelist at Yahoo.
-not just AJAX, Flash or any other RIA
-Bill has a long history in UI, starting with games in the 80s
-primarily working on the Yahoo! Pattern Library developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns
-these are user interacting design patterns, not software patterns
Yahoo UI Pattern Library
-started cataloging everything inside and outside of Yahoo
-ajaxpatterns.org has more software patterns
-Why is yahoo this
-they want to think about them and get community feedback
-create a common language to discuss them, we need to name them clearly, like AJAX;)
-yuiblog.com
-they have a small set of patterns out at this time
-more coming
-there’s rest API for the patterns directory, can be consumed in corporate libraries
-they have a UI Library of components under the BSD license and the project is in SourceForge
-AC I wonder what % they contribute, do they keep secret sauce?
-users picked up on the drag and drop right away in yahoo mail beta because it looks like a desktop app - discoverability
-good to show this stuff to designers, because they might still be thinking in the old of the read only web (a lot more than designers need to learn about this)
-wherever there’s output, let there be input
-they got push back at Yahoo at first because they didn’t even know Flickr had inline editing
-discoverability
-what can I do?
-where can I do it?
-it’s important to keep the user
-its all about the user’s mental model (there user needs and wants)
-careful with things like drag and drop
-good for positioning
-list ordering
-transitions are important, as in visual cues
-don’t commit while the user is experimenting
-zuggest is a neat search for books on amazon
-use autocomplete for questions, such as technical support
-on tab out complete fields
-support for wildcards in auto-complete?
-provide immediate feedback for refinning search (live feedback)
-no need for a progress indicator under 1/4 of a second
-defer loading less important features or content…can load later
-live preview as in the Gap shopping site and Office 12 formatting
-keep the goal in mind with live feedback, design for immediacy
-keep in mind narrowing vs distracting the users attempt to reach the goal
-Bill doesn’t use google suggest except for showing it to people
-look for engaging moments
-use tips during wizards to lead the user along keep them engaged (time flys when you’re having fun)
-keep feedback focused and inline with where the user is looking, especially with animation
-when digg added it the traffic grew exponentially
-Invitation to interact (invitations aid discoverability)
-tool tips
-hove
-shadow
-cursor invitation
-drop invitation
-sign posts
-avoid crossing boundaries
-keep it inline
-if you do it can be distracting to the user
-rethink process flows
-plan for linking, crawling and back button
leave a ligh footprint
-watch your click weight
-count your clicks
speak to the Brain
-read mind hacks - hack #37 - It’s on my bedside table right now;-)
-your brain responds to light and fast moving objects
-understand attention processing
-careful with transitions, they shouldn’t fly at your head when they’re supposed to go away
-no the rules!
-what you can communicate:
-time: speed it up or slow it down
-keep it sane
-cut it in half rule of thumb
we’ve move from pages to objects
-shareable object
-determine the core work objects (schedule, etc…)
-we’re not always dealing with
-alan cooper’s a good guy to read for this stuff
-and check this out! Local Event Browser from yahoo.
-how do model the interaction and design for RIA
-storyboards
-Visio tool kit - that Bill has developed, helps you animate Visio diagrams
-wireframing
-what about right click menus, people use it and are familiar so they seem to work pretty well
-familiar vs intuitive interfaces features
-innovate in small chunks
-to keep
-how long will people wait or try to get it working, for a new web2.0 service maybe 30-60 secs
Technorati Tags: ajaxexperience, ajax, ajaxian, eba, billscott, ypatternexample
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