Creating Rich User Experiences

Brad AbramsGroup Program Managerhttp://blogs.msdn.com/BradA

Arturo ToledoProduct Manager

What is user experience?

What is user experience?

Coffee? Entertainment? Consumer Goods?

Windows Vista Office 2007

ROI for UX

Ease of

Use

Richnes

s

SuccessProductivityRetention

Comprehension ConversionSatisfactionExcitementRepeat Use

Return-on-Investment

UX Principles for Ease of Use

Share

Suggest Predict

Preserve

UX Principles for Richness

Look Great Immediate Response Flow

Windows Live

Demo

ASP.NET “Atlas”

A framework for building next generation, cross-platform, browsing experiences– Ubiquitous, cross-platform, browser support– Most-productive framework for building AJAX-

enabled web applications– Rich tool support for designer and

developer workflow– No cost, free tool support, easy to use

ASP.NET “Atlas”Web ServerWeb Server

IE

Firefox

Safari

BrowseBrowserr

ClientsClients

Atlas Client JavaScript Libraries

AtlasUIGlitz.js

AtlasGadgets.js

AtlasFX.js

AtlasCompat.js

AtlasRuntime.js

Apache & PHPApache & PHP

ColdFusionColdFusion

IIS & ASP.NETIIS & ASP.NET

JSON Bridge Support

Membership & Personalization

Support

ASP.NET Server Control Integration

Unifying the Designer Developer

ProcessDesignerEmotional Connection

Look, behavior, data visualization, usability,

brand impact

DeveloperFunctional

CapabilitiesDeployment, function, data connection and integrity, IT

process, security

JScriptC#

VB.NET

PaperJPG / TIFF

MOV / WMV PSDPPT

XHTMLCSSXSLT

MicrosoftVisual Web DeveloperExpress Edition

Expression Web DesignerThe DiceDepot

Demo

Arturo ToledoProduct Manager

AtlasThe DiceDepot

Demo

http://atlas.asp.net/atlastoolkithttp://atlas.asp.net/atlastoolkit

Squeet.com

“Atlas” has enabled Squeet users to have a rich user experience …You can’t ask for a more powerful

and easy-to-use API.Hamed Shojaee, President, Axosoft, LLC

Squeet.com

www.TitleZ.com

“Considering how time-consuming traditional AJAX can be to

implement, ‘Atlas’ seems almost like magic!”

Arthur Wait, Dev Manager, TitleZ

www.TitleZ.com

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2006/05/06/AtlasControlVendors.aspx

Atlas

But that is not all....

Xaml

New York Times Reader

DemoWindows Presentation Foundation

Demo

Xaml in DiceDepot

“Windows Presentation FoundationEverywhere”

How Do I Get Started?• Atlas Community Technology Preview

– Install the FREE Visual Web Developer 2005– Go Live CTP – build live sites with Atlas today!

• Atlas community site: http://atlas.asp.net– Tutorials, videos, samples, forums, resources

• Expression Designer– Download the previewhttp://www.microsoft.com/products/expression

• Learn more about Xaml– http://netfx3.com

• We’d love your feedback!Brad.Abrams@Microsoft.comhttp://blogs.msdn.com/brada

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