http://www.jonoellis.co.uk/blog/2007/12/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-online-os-interface-styling/ jonoellis.co.uk Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:22:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jonoellis.co.uk/blog/2007/12/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-online-os-interface-styling/comment-page-1/#comment-54 WileE Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:09:01 +0000 http://www.jonoellis.co.uk/blog/2007/12/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-online-os-interface-styling/#comment-54 Personally I agree that providing a desktop like interface for online platforms that integrate various services and applications is the way-to-go and its already becoming reality (see oos.cc, desktoptwo.com and many others). Some of them already support different skins and allow for customizations as mentioned above. However more and more people seem to disagree with this assesment and prefer a more website oriented approach. So maybe its time to rethink the established concepts of user interface design for both online and desktop solutions to come up with new innovative user interfaces for these Online Desktops. So far I have not figured out in which direction this could go, but I think its worth looking into. Personally I agree that providing a desktop like interface for online platforms that integrate various services and applications is the way-to-go and its already becoming reality (see oos.cc, desktoptwo.com and many others). Some of them already support different skins and allow for customizations as mentioned above.
However more and more people seem to disagree with this assesment and prefer a more website oriented approach. So maybe its time to rethink the established concepts of user interface design for both online and desktop solutions to come up with new innovative user interfaces for these Online Desktops. So far I have not figured out in which direction this could go, but I think its worth looking into.

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