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It's the User, Stupid Lot's of chatter about Web 2.0 these days. To me, Web 2.0 is about the user and the user interface. For years and years, actually since the beginning the backend, the operating system, the number crunching part of technology ruled. There was only a certain amount of computing power and capacity available, and the backend always won out. To some extent, the backend is becoming commoditized. But the frontend, the user and the user interface has never been allowed to flourish. The Web needed speed and so the UI suffered -- smaller file sizes and simple interfaces were the most usable and popular. Usability ruled. Creativity was considered the enemy of the user. Web 2.0 is making the Web better for the user. It's investing in the user and making things easier through RSS, OPML, Ajax, Flash, Laszlo, DHTML, Widgets, Gadgets, Contraptions. The new Web appeals to the senses of the user. We're still in a primative state with user interfaces on the Web. There's a lot to learn from what was done on desktop software, but Web UI designers skipped those lessons because they didn't apply to Web 1.0. Now we all need to listen to the people who built the classic desktop apps to learn the language of Web 2.0. |
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