Andre’s Blog

Usability in Economic Terms

November 14th, 2006

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

Nielsen, August 28, 1997

Wow…makes you wonder eh.  Ajax can help combat this problem, but only if applied carefully using sound usability techniques not just more cow bell!

This and more usability quotes here.

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Ajax data grid for .Net from Nitobi

November 9th, 2006

I’m a little behind on the blog post but so I’ll just point you to Alexei’s post and the press release on the Nitobi Ajax Grid for .Net. 

AjaxWorld magazine also has coverage.

Here’s a screen shot:

 

Thanks for your hard work Joel, have a good time in Panama.

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Nitobi on Redmonk Radio

November 1st, 2006

The esteemed Cote, an analyst at Redmonk, hosted us on the Redmonk Radio podcast this halloween.  Although the conversation really isn’t that spooky or have anything to do with pumpkins it’s a great conversation about enterprise AJAX and usable web apps.

In this episode, Coté talks with André Charland, Dave Johnson, and Alexei White all of Nitobi. We discuss Nitobi’s RIA components, the world of AJAX and RIA, evolving the web, and the general state of the AJAX/RIA space at the moment.

You can download the episode mp3 by clicking here.

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