As you are likely aware of at this point, if you've been reading BizTechTalk in the last 12-18 months or so, I'm a big fan (usually) of SlideShare. Awfully handy, free, embeddable, taggable, measurable (metrics!) presentation sharing service.
I haven't uploaded a presentation on slideshare in 3 months as all presentations since then have been for private clients, or projects that will be launched elsewhere.
At some point between then and now, slideshare has done some subtle AJAX work, as shown in the screenshot here.
Click the upload button in the upper right of any page on slideshare, it instantly pops up the file selection window, and then begins uploading without ever leaving the page, allowing you to continue working without "surfus interuptus" as they say in Latin.
Some developers believe that features like this are simply "nice to have" when the entire point of usability is to get out of the way of the user, and let them do what they're trying to do.
Not that SlideShare is perfect, but software companies have a natural tendency to slide into creeping featuritis, which makes for unbearably complex interfaces that look impressive (cough, MS Office), but end up complicating the vast majority of work you do with the interfaces.
Anyone have other examples of usability done right?
I haven't uploaded a presentation on slideshare in 3 months as all presentations since then have been for private clients, or projects that will be launched elsewhere.
At some point between then and now, slideshare has done some subtle AJAX work, as shown in the screenshot here.
Click the upload button in the upper right of any page on slideshare, it instantly pops up the file selection window, and then begins uploading without ever leaving the page, allowing you to continue working without "surfus interuptus" as they say in Latin.
Some developers believe that features like this are simply "nice to have" when the entire point of usability is to get out of the way of the user, and let them do what they're trying to do.
Not that SlideShare is perfect, but software companies have a natural tendency to slide into creeping featuritis, which makes for unbearably complex interfaces that look impressive (cough, MS Office), but end up complicating the vast majority of work you do with the interfaces.
Anyone have other examples of usability done right?
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