The User Experience Bar Is Now Sky High
In a way I feel bad that new companies in the web app arena have to compete at such a high level, but then again, pushing the boundaries of the web medium in turn pushes the boundaries of our industry as a whole. Web user interfaces are now so incredibly advanced that people expect them to be as interactive and intuitive as possible, and I think if your startup doesn’t start off with the idea that a killer interaction design experience is necessary, it’s almost doomed to fail from the start.
In the past few days I’ve seen some demos of some really hot web applications, and I thought putting them all together would be fun to see.
Scrybe should be out in beta pretty soon:
A new Backpack (movie link) is coming soon, letting you drag and drop whatever the hell you want, and you can baleeed that this cool stuff is coming to the next version of Basecamp.
A new Joyent (movie link) is coming soon as well, with a slicker interface, new “loading” contextual clues, and a lot more.
Fluxiom (movie link) is the hot digital asset management application from the geniuses at Wollzelle who are also responsible for the Ajaxified and standards compliant redesign of Gucci.com.
I don’t think that interaction design has ever been a larger part of the web industry than right now, which is damn exciting because it means people are finally starting to notice that it matters :)
