Lunch 2.0

Like Chuck, Jared M. Spool is one of the visual images in my memory database. This is the story I will tell slowly over time. Jared is one of the legends in User Interface and Internet History. Our web will look very different without his contributions.

Like Chuck, I am running around busy living both a day-time and night-time lives. I couldn’t inform the publishers about his coming. I would list his books here to celebrate his contribution to the web. Many UI professionals are making very important decisions based on his research.

Handbook of Usability Testing: Howto Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests by Jeffrey Rubin, Dana Chisnell, and Jared Spool

User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach by Daniel D. McCracken, Rosalee J. Wolfe, and Jared M. Spool

Web Site Usability (Interactive Technologies) by Jared Spool, Tara Scanlon, Carolyn Snyder, and Terri DeAngelo

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski, Jared Spool, Caroline Jarrett, and Peter Wallack

Bess
SVWB Founder

Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Browser-side development capabilities, such as Javascript, Ajax, and Rich-Internet Applications (RIAs), (along with the latest additions: Adobe’s AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight,) presents developers with tremendous power. We can create more fluid interactions, moving away from the dreaded page refresh, giving users an experience more like the desktop applications they are used to.

As more sites move to using these capabilities, developers are exploring the canvas — seeing what works and what doesn’t. Through this exploration, we’ve discovered patterns and principals to help guide us to make better designs going forward.

In this presentation, Jared will talk about the different approaches developers have taken with these new capabilities. He’ll discuss:

+ What smart clients bring us, such as enhanced progressive disclosure, visualization, and effeciency capabilities?
+ What we can learn from game design for creating immersive experiences?
+ What are the common traps developers fall into when they start playing with these technologies?

He’ll show examples from Flickr, Google, Yahoo!, Netflix, Lands End, Gap, and LA Times, deconstructing their use of these new development capabilities to help us understand how we can apply them to our own designs.

7/30/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal of User Interface Engineering
Location: Hurricane Electric “The Matrix” Building
48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Registration URL: http://clientsidestory.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

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