Is there a need for an enterprise User Interface Design as part of a cloud strategy?
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July 1, 2010 11:45 AM
I’ve mentioned before the problems of the human attention span and the conflict with the ever increasing amount of information we gather for business and the need to engineer our environment to maximize our consumption of attention and decision making.
In this month’s Wired there was an article stating The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains, a summary and extract of a new book by Nicholas Carr. It goes on to say:
"What we’re experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: We are evolving from cultivators of personal knowledge into hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest. In the process, we seem fated to sacrifice much of what makes our minds so interesting.”
One of the issues with SaaS and Cloud techniques that I believe we’ll run into is that we cannot display to the user a disjointed aggregation of interfaces from various sources, but will need to weave the various interfaces into something that quickly facilitates decision making by the user.
This is exactly what we did for the MSRC project in the early 90s. Just like there is a need for Enterprise Architecture and its associated enterprise information architecture; there will need to be an enterprise view of user interface, as well.
Originally posted on The Next Big Thing blog
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| Charles Bess has worked in the Information Technology industry for about 30 years supporting a variety of large organizations and industries. Charlie has performed a variety of formal and technical leadership roles throughout EDS and now HP. He is a licensed professional engineer and in 2002, a senior member of IEEE and was recognized as a Fellow within HP for his focus on value delivery and innovation. Currently he is focused on the Chief Technologist functional relationship between HP and its largest clients. In addition to these activities, Charlie has also worked as a public speaker, advisor to SMUs MBA program and supported engineering and computer science activities at Purdue University and University of North Texas. He’s been blogging on technology and business value related topics since early 2003. |  |
Posted by Sue Ansell at July 1, 2010 11:45 AM
Categories: Cloud computing Software as a Service (SaaS)
