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ajax usability notes from GWT conference

usability - Kelly Norton
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- goal is great product / happy users
- unachievable without good usability
- great product / happy users = maximizing user experience
- do task analysis up front
- design, implement, test, design, implement, test …
task analysis
- what does a user need to be done?
- need dictates design, not system elegance
- what does the user […]

AJAX Resources

Javascript Bootcamp and AJAX - The Big Picture slides from a couple of today’s discussions at the GWT conference http://nitobi.com/gwt/ .. the big picture discussion should be online soon …
additional ajax resources:

enterpriseajax.com
billwscott.com
designinginterfaces.com
ajaxpatterns.org
ui-patterns.com
MS Windows UE Guidelines
Yahoo! Pattern Library

What is Social Network Portability?

Tantek ÇeliK just published a presentation titled Fundamentos Web 2007: Social Network Portability
Here are a couple videos I shot at barcamp up in SF a couple months ago:
Part 1

Part 2

For further reading checkout these resources:

Microformats Wiki
XFN Home Page
Brian Oberkirch’s series of posts on portable social networks