Future of Web Apps - Jeff Veen

Jeff Veen from Google spoke to the attendees about how to design better web application interfaces.

His opening comments were that a lack of the "web 2.0" buzzword mentioned during the summit is a good thing. He also spoke for a few minutes about the fact that booms and busts are a cycle.

His presentation focused on three areas: Visual Design, Interaction Design and Information Architecture.

Visual Design

  • Use visual design competency to build trust with users, empowering them to control their data
  • Use design techniques to improve the data
  • If you do a good job on the visual design, people will give you the benefit of the doubt

Jeff's definition of information = data thats actionable. Ajax has changed things for interaction design.

Interaction Design - 4 Principles

  • Discoverability - making finding stuff easy
  • Recoverability  action should be without cost
  • Context - a sense of time place and meaning (amazon checkout)
  • Feedback - how the system responds -

Information Architecture

  • Blending editorial control with participation
  • Tagging is now creating an architecture
  • It is now bottom up in some cases

Jeff's presentation can be downloaded here: veen.com/nextgen.pdf

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from My Name is Kate on September 23, 2006 - 9:41pm

Jeff Veen is the project lead of MeasureMap at Google. He was a founding member of AdaptivePath as well as the Executive Director of Interface Design for Wired Digital. Jeff shared a few thoughts on the future of design for

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