Articles

Task Flow for Web Applications, part 2
Wizards & Guides

Feb 25, 2004 :: This article explores two types of task structures commonly employed in web applications. Known as wizards and guides, these structures are useful for presenting complex transactions and multipart processes in smaller and more manageable sequences of individual steps. From Boxes and Arrows.

Review: 2nd Annual O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Jun 18, 2003 :: The interesting subtext of the 2nd Annual O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference was that technology has reached a point where users—actual real people—are the defining element of the human/computer relationship. From Boxes and Arrows.

Task Flow for Web Applications, part 1
Views & Forms

May 12, 2003 :: The following few thousand words serve to describe both the fundamental building blocks of HTML-based web applications as well as the three ways in which those blocks can be arranged to provide various types of task flows. From Boxes and Arrows.

What is a Web Application?

Jan 20, 2003 :: This article explores the unique characteristics of Web applications and why they’re fundamentally different from traditional content-based Web sites. From Boxes and Arrows.

Defining Interaction Design

Nov 11, 2002 :: The specialty of interaction design has become increasingly important with the rise in number and complexity of Web applications. This article describes the type of problems solved by interaction designers and how they differ from the problems typically faced by information architects. From Boxes and Arrows.