[Sigia-l] The IA in RIAs

[Listera]

Listera:

> Designers solve problems. Other than being knowledgeable about design
> constraints thus introduced, we shouldn't really care where an app's data
> resides.

I should also add a few words on what happens when there's no connectivity.

Again, looking at prevailing trends, it's not hard to think that in the near
future being always connected will be the norm, not the other way around. As
it is, in a place like Manhattan, it's pretty hard now to find a location
where a laptop user with a wireless card can't connect somehow to the Net.

But if the user is separated from the data source, the issues that app
designers have to deal with are often not interface/interaction/architecture
related, but, more technically-oriented ones like authentication and data
replication/synching.

For most RIAs, what passes as "off-line" capability is almost always a
significantly-reduced subset of the connected experience.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba