May 09, 2007

Communicating web 2.0 through design

Posted by: Admin on May 09, 2007

The rise of ‘web 2.0′ has brought with it a slew of new interaction styles and concepts, most of which give the web some magical powers it never had before, making it a significantly more powerful platform for application development. But RSS, tagging, drag-and-drop, slide transitions, and many other new paradigms are unfamiliar to web audiences, who have been trained for years that the web has severely limited capabilities compared with the desktop.

So how do we teach our users to use all these fancy new gadgets? We do it through the magic of instructive design. Let’s take a look at how some simple design elements can be used to communicate the value of these new interactions and get our users moving forward quickly.

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