Bill Scott is the Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service. At Netflix he is guiding the UI Engineering team's efforts to continue Netflix's excellence in user experience, improve client performance and refactor the presentation tier to use the latest best practices for both the DHTML layer as well as the Java tier layer.
Scott is currently finishing up an O'Reilly book called Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction. The book covers 75+ interaction design patterns, several anti-Patterns organized into six design principles for designing rich interfaces.
Previously, he led engineering for Yahoo! Teachers, a Web 2.0 community allowing teachers to gather, organize & share web resources and lesson planning. In addition, as an Ajax Evangelist at Yahoo! he focused on spreading the goodness of "rich and sane" AJAX design & development. Bill is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops discussing the nuances of good design and the challenges of great engineering. At Yahoo! Bill was also the Design Pattern curator where he launched the public Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. Before Yahoo! Bill led User Experience at Sabre Airline Solutions and co-founded Rico (an open source Ajax framework).
Nine Tips for Designing Rich Internet Applications
Recently I was asked to provide input into a presentation. The question was
asked, if you were going to provide some quick basic guidelines for designing
rich applications what would they be.
Here were the nine thoughts as they originally came to my head.
1) Make it directly interactive
Instead of page to page interactions think direct interaction. Use in context
editing as much as possible. Use drag and drop only where it makes sense.
Barring a selection model, put tools as close to the objects being edited as
possible. Cooper states it as "Where there is output, let there be input."
2) Make it inviting
Use hover to invite users to the next level of interaction. If the interface
responds well to light events (like hover) it c... (more)
Bill Scott is the Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service. At Netflix he is guiding the UI Engineering team's efforts to continue Netflix's excellence in user experience, improve client performance and refactor the presentation tier to use the latest best practices for both the DHTML layer as well as the Java tier layer.
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