Comments on: Simply using Web 2.0 technologies does not guarantee an optimal experience http://www.inspireux.com/2009/05/01/simply-using-web-20-technologies-does-not-guarantee-an-optimal-experience/ User Experience quotes and articles to inspire and connect the UX community Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:47:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: rainwebs http://www.inspireux.com/2009/05/01/simply-using-web-20-technologies-does-not-guarantee-an-optimal-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-5392 rainwebs Wed, 13 May 2009 10:14:26 +0000 http://www.inspireux.com/?p=728#comment-5392 If you're an experienced desktop developer you know that it is absurd to think that even with the best Web 2.0 technologies based on AJAX you will ever reach the quality of a desktop application design. What should be the minimum anyway. You don't have the controls for this. So, you can try to reach something similar, but to go this way is pretty exhausting. If you take Flex you can have a look at the "old" styleguides from the desktop and may have a 90% solution. So, the real problem is how good can I imitate the desktop to get something that has a user experience we can start to talk about. But, even then I wonder why we still have nothing better. The desktop metaphor is almost 40 years old (prototypes at PARC, 1969). How many centuries is this in computer years? If you’re an experienced desktop developer you know that it is absurd to think that even with the best Web 2.0 technologies based on AJAX you will ever reach the quality of a desktop application design. What should be the minimum anyway. You don’t have the controls for this. So, you can try to reach something similar, but to go this way is pretty exhausting.

If you take Flex you can have a look at the “old” styleguides from the desktop and may have a 90% solution. So, the real problem is how good can I imitate the desktop to get something that has a user experience we can start to talk about.

But, even then I wonder why we still have nothing better. The desktop metaphor is almost 40 years old (prototypes at PARC, 1969). How many centuries is this in computer years?

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