[Sigia-l] RIA: the wrong tree?

[Ziya Oz]

Jonathan Baker-Bates:

> "End-user type" people have no reliable capacity to imagine user interfaces,

Be that as it may, do they then have a reliable capacity to gauge the
effectiveness of UIs post facto? Needless to say, there's been a stupendous
explosion of web apps over the last decade, any evidence that users prefer
richer UI/desktop apps over web UIs when given a comparable choice?

None of the 37signals.com stuff, for example, is desktop-based, yet they are
all effective tools without being encumbered with 'rich UIs'. Have they made
the wrong choice? 

> Nice weather we're having in London by the way.

Won't last long. :-)

----
Ziya

In design, interaction is the last resort.