The guys who invented JSP are now playing around with a new technology, that looks very promising. XAML is the MS implementation of an XML based UI definition (there are others ranging from XUL to WSUI) and since it will be packaged into Longhorn, it could change the way application UIs will evolve over the next few years. Xamlon is a runtime library that executes XAML for the .NET framework. Although not 100% XAML compatible, I think there is potential here.
I'm not to sure how web applications will evovle over the next couple of years now that technologies like XUL, Flex/Laszlo and XAML are making their presence felt. Does this mark the beginning of the end of the DHTML based Web Application?
[via Jeremy Allaire]
If Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google were to have a blog, this probably what it would look like...
Very funny :-)
Boxes and Arrows: Executive Dashboards
Contrary to first impression, an “executive dashboard” is not found in a CIO's car. Rather, an executive dashboard, also known as a manager dashboard, executive cockpit, or digital cockpit, is a child of what in the 1980s was referred to as the Executive Information System (EIS).
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Just got this email via my site. Check it out:
Message: Hi, I am Adarsh Rao (6 years old)studing in 2nd class, vidya vinayalaya school, Hyderabad. I have learned 8 softwares, they are Adobe products like Illustrator10.0, Photoshop 6.0, Flash5, Flash MX, Premier 6.0, Sound forge 4.5, Macromedia, Director8.0, Kinetic 3D Max studio 4.0, Morphing. I am certified in Flah designing & computer Graphics and animation with 94% and 3D Max from institue of Image Malakpet branch, Hyderabad. I made my website www.adarshrao.com and my school website www.vidyavinayalaya.com and has done several small projects.
I want to appear Macromedia Flash MX Designer Exam in December 2003.
I have alredy studied Flash MX bible and Christopher Hayes Flash MX Designer study guide. I have given practice test on www.forta.com several times. if you can, please mail sites for free practice test and any other books to appear
Macromedia Flash MX Designer Exam.
thanking u
adarsh rao
xxxx@rediffmail.com
I personally have not been preparing for certification, but a lot of you guys might have. Want to give pointers to this youg chap? Let me know. I don't want to put the email up (harvesting), but if anybody wants to encourage him, ping me and I'll send it across...
Tomalak's Realm
Fast Company: 5 Tech Innovators. Scott Kirsner. They work in fields as diverse as portable power, biotechnology, and information visualization. Who's working on something really new? Here are five compelling answers.
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O'Reilly Network Articles: JPEG2000: the Killer Image File Format for Lossless Storage
Is JPEG2000 the killer image file format for lossless storage? Ken Milburn thinks so. In this article, Ken details the options available in the JPEG2000 plug-in, which have been designed to help photographers losslessly compress and store the highest-quality images as efficiently as possible. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photographer's Handbook.
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Metrics for User Experience Design projects have never been easy to define. Mark Hrust at goodexperience defines what he calls the ROSE framework, which stands for Results, Organization, Strategy and Experience. While it is still intangible and cannot be well defined like stanadard Project Management metrics of Schedule Compliance and Earned Value, it still sounds like great starting point.
Dave Shea at Mezzoblue has a post about CSS Best Practices and is inviting contributions:
“A CSS Best Practice is a one sentence action statement, a “thou shalt” or “thou shalt not” (paraphrased, of course) that highlights a specific issue, be it browser compatibility, code integrity, or whatever else can actually be considered factual (instead of opinion).”
This is followed by a paragraph that goes more in depth about why or why not someone would want to follow the action, with links to further reading. This is the stuff that, if you know it ahead of time, makes your design process much less of a headache.
Go over and make your contributions now. It'll make a very good resource.
A nice Photoshop tutorial that shows you how to create the following effects: Soft Focus, Drawing, Moody & Lomo with downloadable action files.
“So often, user-experience designers are held accountable for process objectives. A successful project is one that meets budgets, deadlines, and specifications.
There’s a problem with measuring success this way — process-objective metrics don’t really tell you how good you are at developing a strong user experience, only whether you completed the job specifications efficiently.
But what about the project itself? Was it chosen wisely? Was it grounded in user research and customer insight? What effect will it have on the business? ”
As Scott says, it is really important to define what you as user-experience designers will bring to the table. But it is equally important to note that most projects will still be measured using traditional metrics.
One of the best way to handle this is to define the user-experience design phase as a sub-project itself, so that it can be measured using independent metrics.
Big Mac, the terascale cluster built entirely out of Macintosh computers is officially the third fastest super computer notes this Wired article.
However its 10.3 teraflop speed may soon be eclipsed by a dishwasher sized super computer being built by IBM which may clock up to 360 teraflops. By comparison, the fastest machine today clocks just 35 teraflops and is the size of four tennis courts. And it is expected to run on Linux…
MetaFilter: Procrastination Research Group
I've been meaning to post this for the longest time.
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The Seattle Art Museum has a nice Flash piece on the life of Krishna. The presentation uses the Indian Miniature style of paintings that give a superb texture to the entire piece. Looks really good. Also, check out the original Indian accent on the voice-over...
E M E R G I C . o r g: Designing Business Processes
Phil Wainewright writes:
What if a business wants to innovate its own business processes perhaps to achieve competitive advantage, for example. If you're a big customer of a responsive software vendor, they'll develop that new process for you and deliver it within around nine months. Then they'll deliver it to all your competitors in their next upgrade cycle. That's their business model: big companies establish best practices, and software vendors automate them for everyone in the industry. They're quite overt about it. In fact, it's supposed to be one of the advantages of packaged software. It's how they add value to your business.There is a different approach emerging, one that puts process owners in charge, and forces software vendors to take a back seat.
The underpinning is a service-oriented architecture that provides loosely-coupled access to data sources and application functions. Above that infrastructure sits a new service assembly layer that allows process owners to mix and match the information and automation they need to react to changing business requirements.
This service assembly layer is more than simply orchestration or choreography. As Adam Bosworth recently observed, "In a site filled with pages (or pages filled with rich UI interactive gestures) the user is in charge, not the controller. There is no directed flow. Occasionally we build directed flows and call them wizards, but in general sites are not written to move from task to task in some ponderous choreography."
Service assembly is an emerging new category that allows business users to build and modify their own applications on the fly, and then operate them according to the demands of their external environment, no longer constrained by the limitations
of inflexible prepackaged system development.
The Interaction design Institute at Ivrea is hosting an important event
today and tomorrow. This is an international symposium on the foundations of
interaction design.
The institute is making it possible for anyone who wishes to observe the
presentations and dialogue to do so by live video streaming.
Came across this old article by Jon Udell on Infoworld, that calls to elevate scripting languages like ActionScript, JavaScript and Python to a more respectful level.
“I am not only saying that you can do what used to be called "systems programming" in what used to be called a "scripting language" -- although you sometimes can. Nor am I merely lauding Python as a spectacular implementation of a first-class scripting language -- although it is one. My point is that languages like Python, but also Perl, Ruby, and JavaScript/JScript/ActionScript/EcmaScript, are strategic in ways that we don't yet fully acknowledge.”
I do agree they really do deserve more importance in the development process but the idea of using prototypes as final products does seem a bit too revolutionary.
They are very useful if used in pilot studies, and should be built in such a way that most of it can be leveraged. It still may not be possible with current development tools, but it would be great to have one like that. Develop in a scripting language and deploy in Java/C++.
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Ask Tog: D'ohLT #2: Security D'ohLTs. Only a D'ohLT would come up with a security scheme that is so overly complex that it's guaranteed people will write down their passwords. And yet, this kind of D'ohLTishness is par for the course with these guys. They are the most clueless profession I know, and they are showing no signs of getting any better.
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James Patten is PhD candidate with MIT Medial Lab's Tangible Media Group and his work on the physical object based interface is truly amazing to look at.
But are these 'Tangible Interfaces' really intuitive? They look very cool though. I'm sure this will have its own learning curve...
Also, keeping this on-topic and still getting Flash into the picture, I remember something Yugo Nakamura had been working on with Sony, where he had given a demo at a FlashForward of a way to tangibly exchange business cards. You basically drag a business card from your computer desktop on to a table and the other person can pick the card up from the table and put it into their computer. And it seems it was prototyped using Flash. Anybody remember?
E M E R G I C . o r g: Best of 2003
Popular Science has the 10 best innovations/inventions of 2003. Among them: 802.11g and the Mitsubishi MegaView Wall.
Boing Boing Blog: Napster's Flash "Street" ad campaign
Napster Bad -- not. This series of flash shorts on the Napster.com site seem to be a sort of animated equivalent to the faux graffitti ad campaign. Both the posters and the shorts cast that be-headphoned mascot as a hunted rebel The Man just won't leave alone. Sure, it may smell like teen spirit -- but Old Napster it ain't, despite the conspicuous attempts at street cred. Link
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theOTHERblog: Jason Salavon - Every Playboy Centerfold, The Decades
Via plasticbag.The photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture. ...
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In this article Dean Takahashi highlights the growing importance of visual design and industrial design:
“It used to be that only high-end companies such as Apple Computer or Sony cared about industrial design -- the distinctive look and feel of their products. But in an age when hardware has become a commodity, many more tech companies are coming to realize that aesthetics matter.”
Makes a very good case for design.
[via JD on MX]
num1000remix is smooth, high paced animation that looks quite cool. There are quite a few neat tricks there, which make it look quite slick. However looking at it, I can’t but help think, could this not have been achieved in less than 5MB? Maybe it’s the high quality audio, but still…
It's been ages since I've done animation myself, but the old school flash animators were so keen on keeping file sizes down. Is it no longer a prerogative?
Boing Boing Blog: Cool way to organize travel images for online presentation
Nice UI: cartoonist/illustrator/blogger Kean organized online photos and sketches from a recent trip to NYC along the subway map. Link (Thanks, Invisible Cowgirl)
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I usually do not blog about my work, but I just came across this link via DigitalMediaMinute and found it quite relevant to what we do at Digité.
The article outlines all the steps that needs to be present in a successful project. But no matter how well you plan out a project, execution is never that simple. Which is why tools like Digité Enterprise play an essential role in ensuring success...
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