Re: Best Web technology from usability perspective

Well, fortunately I'm not looking for an easy answer. :)
I'm more trying to find out what the pros and cons of each technology
are.
I'm noticing that a lot of different factors affect the choice of
technology:

-'Religious' reasons
-Developer skills
-Available developer resources
-Customer requirements (e.g. do they allow installation of a plugin?)
-Market acceptance/maturity of the technology
and so on.

As 'usability guy' in my organization, I would like to disregard all
those factors (because other colleagues are plenty worried about those)
and look at each technology purely on the basis of UI design,
specifically designing an enterprise-level B2B application. 

One objective measure, for example, would be to compare the amount and
variety of GUI controls offered out of the box by each technology, or
readily available for that technology.

Another helpful piece of information would be to hear a usability
designer talk about their experience working with technology X or Y in a
project (again focusing on the usability aspect): which were the
pitfalls, what worked beautifully, and would they recommend it again?

Like I said, I'm not expecting a clear, short answer to my question. I
would just like to pick the mailing list members' brains.

Kind regards,

Mathijs

-----Original Message-----
From: David Malouf [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 01:19
To: Mathijs Panhuijsen
Subject: Re: Best Web technology from usability perspective

there r so many pieces to figuring out how to answer this question. Iy  
is part of a 1-day workshop I'll be teaching in NYC this October for  
SmartExperience.org.

I have a slide deck on slideshare.net that might be helpful.

But again there us not easy answer here. It really depends. Anyone who  
tells you otherwise is really blowing smoke.

- dave

On Aug 7, 2008, at 5:32 AM, Mathijs Panhuijsen
<[email protected] 
 > wrote:

> Hello everybody,
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> My company is looking into choosing a new Web technology for building
> their next generation GUI (browser-based).
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> They are considering options ranging from a homebrew AJAX-based system
> to the Google Web Toolkit to Microsoft Silverlight.
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> My question to you is:
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> Which Web technology would you recommend for building a RIA, purely  
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> a usability point of view?
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> We're talking here about a very rich application with loads of
> functionality, not an 'interactive Web site'.
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> In other words, which Web technology works best to develop the most
> usable interfaces the quickest?
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> Kind regards,
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> Mathijs Panhuijsen
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> Technical Writer
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> SDL Tridion
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