Web App Summit 2008

Coronado Island, California

March 26-28

Over the three days of this premier event, you'll meet the innovators and world-class designers behind today's most successful web apps and come away inspired to create amazing applications that will delight your users.

Molecular’s Steve Mulder will present the following session:

AJAX And RIAs: Moving Functionality Over to the Client (View Presentation on SlideShare)
Learn what makes these new browser-based technologies so powerful for application developers. Steve Mulder will walk through Molecular's decision process on when (and when not to) use Ajax and RIAs to solve their client's toughest application-design problems.

If browser-side technologies such as AJAX and Flash are powerful flames heating up the Web, then designers are the glassblowers. It's up to design teams to creative intuitive, engaging interfaces on top of the new possibilities that AJAX and Flash bring. Yet, old skills aren't enough in this age of animated transitions, asynchronous interactivity, and application-like behavior.

What does every designer need to know to move from classic HTML sites to these new, dynamic rich interfaces? Steve will talk about effective ways to incorporate user feedback into an interactive interface, and how timing can be the difference between an design that delights and one that falls flat.

He'll also discuss how traditional ideals such as discoverability and simplicity take on new meaning when we design rich interfaces. Steve will walk you through examples of both successful and failed rich interfaces, so you can jumpstart your own great design ideas.

For more information or to register, please visit the Web App Summit 2008 web site.