Multipurpose Room

Panel: Designing Web Apps

Below are rarely quotes, but more notes.

Moderator: Jeffery Veen.

Steve : Been working on a book – the User is Always Right

Rashmi: Doing research.

Jared Spool: Focusing more lately on experience design.

Mike: Showing Mappr – flickr api application with Route 66. Exploratorium/cabspotting.org. digg labs – showed swarp. Work without constraints: client relationship. Looking for loose relationship. Projects progress from on to another.

Rusmi: Duct tape research. MindCanvas. Deliverable is variety of terms.

Jared: We don’t use much automated because we have not found a project that it would dovetail with.

Rusmi: We ran into limitation with some browsers with Ajax so went with Flash because of cross browser compatibility. Some reports are Ajax.

Mike: We primarily use Flash. You can zoom down. Problems for Linux users with Flash. Three or four people working on applications – can be as few as one.

Rusmi: Work remotely with India team. Formality is basecamp or email. We use PowerPoint as a collaboration tool

Steve: Something stupid? Did wireframe in PowerPoint.

Jared: Back button is a problem with Ajax, but you can show people where to go next.

Rusmi: Going full screen has not been a problem.

Steve: Will do usability testing with photoshop with HTML

Veen: Our guys are okay with throwing away 90% of the code.

Jared: Still fan of paper prototypes. Someone makes clickable pdfs.

posted by Ray @ Wednesday, August 16, 2006