Comments on: Usability and Web 2.0 http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/rich/2006/08/10/usability-and-web-20/ web application development with popular technologies Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:08:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Cameron Manderson http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/rich/2006/08/10/usability-and-web-20/#comment-5236 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:48:53 +0000 http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/rich/2006/08/10/usability-and-web-20/#comment-5236 A good article I came across on The Hows and Whys of Degradable AJAX is here: http://particletree.com/features/the-hows-and-whys-of-degradable-ajax/ A good article I came across on The Hows and Whys of Degradable AJAX is here:
http://particletree.com/features/the-hows-and-whys-of-degradable-ajax/

]]> by: Cameron Manderson http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/rich/2006/08/10/usability-and-web-20/#comment-4922 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:40:26 +0000 http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/rich/2006/08/10/usability-and-web-20/#comment-4922 Nice post. I think it is important not to go overboard on the AJAX, but it does suit a very important technology of the future. Good design/navigation and general site design is very important, and AJAX is a useful skill to enhance the user experience of your website. Simple events can be triggered with AJAX without requiring a whole page reload. Take for example adding a product to a cart. If the nature of the site is that a lot of products are displayed on a page and the user wants to add it to the cart, it can be done from that page, without needing a whole lot of tickboxes or page refreshes. The user can hit add and have the server updated immediately with very quick response times and low traffic, so the user isn't encumbered by your "view product -> add to cart -> view cart -> back to product" Using AJAX to extend the capabilities of HTML is what it is all about, introducing auto-complete fields, drill down menus etc enhance the users experience. Nice post. I think it is important not to go overboard on the AJAX, but it does suit a very important technology of the future.

Good design/navigation and general site design is very important, and AJAX is a useful skill to enhance the user experience of your website. Simple events can be triggered with AJAX without requiring a whole page reload. Take for example adding a product to a cart. If the nature of the site is that a lot of products are displayed on a page and the user wants to add it to the cart, it can be done from that page, without needing a whole lot of tickboxes or page refreshes. The user can hit add and have the server updated immediately with very quick response times and low traffic, so the user isn’t encumbered by your “view product -> add to cart -> view cart -> back to product”

Using AJAX to extend the capabilities of HTML is what it is all about, introducing auto-complete fields, drill down menus etc enhance the users experience.

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