Saturday, October 11, 2008

Rich User Interface, a real need

Just saw an iphone, the design is quite cool, but if I have one, after a week, it will look the same for me. But the user interface... I've to say it blows me, to be specific, the ideas amaze me. The accelerometer, I heard that Samsung has a motion sensor in one of its phone, but this accelerometer and most importantly the implementation on iphone reminds me that user interface is indeed very important (I really don't know how to say how I feel the first time I saw it).

In the case of application that the users use in PC, as a developer, it have to be designed such as that it will make the user feels like to use it not being forced to use it. Does this mean RIA is the answer? ... I guess I have to say most probably yes. My tendency was to build a simple but effective UI, but the experience I had today changed my mind, the user has to feel like using the application from the first time he/she looks at it and it will ease user acceptance of the application.