Karl Johnson has put up a series titled “RIA Usability is Key” and while I missed the first one, the second one was a good read. I love the less is more rationale because I think with RIAs it is so easy to overdue it and end up with something that is much less usable. That’s probably one of the things Flash has been skewered for the most. It’s easy to throw in gratuitous animations. It’s much harder to build transitions and effects that aid in usability.

Another post I liked this week was by Dan over at Polygeek. It’s a look at how Apollo fits into the web environment. It’s good to keep in mind that Apollo is a 1.0 product. As I often say, I don’t think Apollo is *the* answer, but it’s changing the way people can think about and deploy applications. Once the creative developers start pushing it, the platform grows and we’re all better off.

[tags]Cynergy, RIA, usability, Apollo[/tags]