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Anthony Franco's Blog On March 20 at AJAXWorld 2008 East, Anthony Franco, UX & UI Expert, President of Effective User Interface will be keynoting on RIA Adoption in 2008 – Risks, Rewards, Challenges and Opportunities. Last year, the overall demand for RIAs outpaced the qualified supply chain. This trend will continue in 2008. While last year brought unprecedented growth in RIA adoption— especially by Fortune 500 companies—RIA adoption in 2008 brings a new onslaught of risks, rewards, challenges, and opportunities for companies of all sizes. This year, companies facing both job growth and decline will need to continue to leverage innovative, usable RIAs to hone their competitive edge to outpace their competition and improve core business practices with fast, reliable, productivity-enhancing internal and external tools. However, building and deploying effective RIAs is... (more)

The cost of computing compared to 1993

I just read an old MacWorld article from Guy Kawasaki, comparing his old 1993 Quadra 800 to an F-15 Eagle fighter… he listed the specs of his Quadra: 33mhz 8megs ram 1gig hd $6399 ($9074 in today’s dollars) I thought it would be fun to see what I could buy today from Apple for the same amount. I looked at [...] ... (more)

A few great new articles on the UIRC

RIAs Can Provide Complex Functionality on the Desktop Adobe AIR, Curl, Google Gears and Mozilla Prism all offer off-line desktop like functionality combined with RIA technology. Do these technologies represent a new kind of client platform? http://www.uiresourcecenter.com/rich-internet-applications/links.html?s=2_3    Removing the Noise: How to eliminate unnecessary distractions from projects – The EffectiveUI Project Management Team The EffectiveUI team of project managers compiled [...] ... (more)

Intellectual Property is Meaningless

Someone needed to say it - Patents are a joke - companies are waging wars against one another over meaningless software patents. I heard last week (have not confirmed it) that IBM makes $1 Billion (thats with a “B”) a year in licensing their patents to other companies …   I know what you are saying, 1 [...] ... (more)

EffectiveUI’s New Executive Team Members

Over the last four years, I have been incredibly fortunate to watch our company grow from Andy, Drew, and myself to more than 100 people. It’s been a tough but exciting road… “bootstrapping” has had its challenges for sure. During our crazy growth, we have always left our CEO position open, always knowing someday we [...] ... (more)