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Ajax Design and Usability We do not have any public dates for this course at the moment. Please contact us if you would like to be notified when new dates are arranged or would like to have the course run in-house.

Topics

• What is Ajax?
• How does it work?
• How does it differ from other web technologies?
• What are its strengths and weaknesses for usability?
• How do I apply Ajax effectively in design?

If you are losing sleep on any of these questions this session will cure your insomnia. It is a highly interactive tutorial that looks at the application of Ajax from both theoretical and practical standpoints. Previous experience of Ajax is not essential.

Agenda

9:00 Introduction

• Activity

9:20 About Ajax

• Ajax in context
• How Ajax works
• How Ajax is different
• How Ajax is similar

9:50 Computer-Human Interaction

• Change blindness
• Attentional gambling
• Flow

10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Computer-Human Interaction continued

• Feedback
• Activity

11:30 Design and usability guidelines
11:50 Case study

• Graceful degradation/progressive enhancement

12:20 Questions

12:30 Lunch break

Biography

William Hudson consults, writes and teaches in the fields of user-centred design and usability. He has over 30 years experience in the development of interactive systems, initially with a background in software engineering. William was the product and user interface designer for the Emmy-award-winning "boujou"; now an indispensable tool in many film studios. He has specialized in interaction design and human-computer interaction since the late 1980's. William has written and taught courses which have been presented to hundreds of software and web developers, designers and managers in the UK, North America and Europe. He is the founder and principal consultant of Syntagm, a consultancy specializing in the design of interactive systems established in 1985.

William has written numerous articles for the ACM's SIGCHI Bulletin and interactions magazine, some of which will be discussed during the event.