Remember, there was a site where you can create a temporary mail ID with just one click and give it to anyone for a limited time? This one is better, you dont have to go through that one click. Just send give out the address xyz@mailinator.com and go check for the mail. No password, no setup. The lesson, minimalistic design.
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Richard Tallent lists out the advantages and disadvantages of HTML apps, comparing them to desktop apps. The disccussion steers clear of the flash and RIA boat, but has a list of reasons why Rich Internat Apps are needed.
Why web apps rock and why they suck: …
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Use this flash interface to control a wireless car in an office in Japan. You can see the cars videos and chat with others too.
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A neat presentation showing the advantages of using RIA in shopping, buying & technology scenarios by IconMediaLab. They have also developed the IconProcess, which is a workflow for UX design. More demos of Rich Internet Applications can be found at Laszlo.
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Its nice to go back to the first principles and review them from time to time. Relevant to all sorts of user interfaces.
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Vectorpark, a morphing sequence of 3d walking things. Slow morphing with response to the mouse. More cool stuff here.
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Jeff Freund from Clickability has an interesting article on how User Interfaces should scale to handle enormous amounts of data. He highlights four points, Minimize repeating operations, show contextual data relevant to the user, make it easy to arrange and make it easy to search data.
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Describe yourself in RDF , use FoaF tools and have fun by visualizing the data at FOAF: Web View. More projects ares listed at FOAF project. A small discussion about FOAF and technorati is here.These two articles tell you more.
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A Personal Information Manager. Email, calendar, IM, News. etc. Pretty neat for dhtml. Got the same look and feel as a desktop app. It took 2years for them to make it!!! Now its open source, but works with IE/win only
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We miss lots of solutions to problems because we don’t have the right question. It is the question that is more important than the answer. Jon Udell has a nice example. Also, “People are often very bad at saying why something works, or what forces act to drive them to a solution, but they typically are very good at saying why something doesn’t or can’t work. ..” AlistairCockburn. Brainstorming for questions why a solution will not work will lead to better designs.
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