Away with Applications: The Death of the Desktop
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Uploaded by GoogleTechTalks on Oct 8, 2007
Google Tech Talks
May 4, 2007
ABSTRACT
The computer desktop metaphor is ubiquitous, but how much work do we get done there? None! Time is entirely wasted navigating or shuffling content to the application in which we can finally work. What lessons can we learn from designing interfaces without the desktop and without applications? Is it even possible? And how does this apply to the Web? Currently, Web applications are often more usable than their desktop-based counterparts because each one does one thing and does it well. Desktop applications used to be the same way, but over time -- as applications grew to support the the users in the long tail -- each became a complex portmanteau of all...
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Aza has been working on the Mozilla Ubiquity project which is essentially a port of Enso for FF. Ubiquity is awesome, so check it xD!
john2496 2 years ago
Great presentation by Aza Raskin.
brianombonga 3 years ago 2