27 Feb 2007 1722H

Adobe’s Apollo platform for UI

Got this article off Read/Write Web by way of Clusty. Adobe’s rolling out a new web dev platform that’s focused solely on Rich Internet Applications, formerly known as rich media, or . . . whatever, but now leveraged for the desktop.

I was tricked by the keywords for “user experience,” which they are using as a buzzword, instead of our insider notion about usability, interaction design, information architecture, and the human-centered practices that inform our design work.

My take: Hmm. Interesting. Don’t know if it will take off. Seems like a lot of the ways that Flash and Flex are used now are still being used in superficial ways, the ways they could or should be leveraged and used is still not happening, and given the lack of vision among corporate stakeholders today, for which I think web professionals who make things are partly responsible, I doubt there is much that Yet Another Web Framework can add to the conversation when there is so much real UX work that still needs to be done.

I don’t really see anything new here that makes me go this is Teh Shiznit either. But since it is Adobe and they hold all the tools now that Macromedia is gone, we should still monitor the situation so as to not fall behind the curve. Holding our position.

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