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Meauring the usability and business benefits of AJAX

October 29th, 2005

Here’s my slide deck from a talk I gave on thursday to the Vancouver User Experience group at the Vancouver Film School. Some of the topics I tried to cover include:

The progression of software user interfaces (Why first generation web apps had bad UIs)
Why is AJAX hot now (even these technologies have been around for a while)
What is AJAX
How to measure the usability benefits of AJAX from a business perspective
How to build using AJAX
Future RIA technologies

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January 13th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
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December 20th, 2006 at 12:07 am
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