UI Design for Web Apps
Personal reminder to read this article later.
Article title: User Interface Design for Web Applications – It’s a Different World from Web Site Design
And also these links.
For those that don’t know… What is a Web Application? (I’ve often been asked what’s the difference between a Website and a Web Application… There is a difference, and one difference is your approach towards it. This PDF is a good quick overview of it.)
Of course, there is the AJAX approach to Web Applications.
Responsiveness is a major issue with Web Applications. The more you can minimise the amount of time the user has to wait between clicking and something appearing on the screen is vitally important. AJAX has a place here.
And with all that talk about AJAX, you may want to get to know some JavaScript (or if you prefer a non-coloured version).
JavaScript is still very useful. It may have been around for quite sometime, and has been given a bad name in the past, but it is still useful nonetheless. (Just don’t abuse it!)