RIA Permeates Pop Culture
I was watching one of my favorite TV shows last night: The Office, and there was a scene that I thought was absolutely hilarious... The concept of RIA has permeated into pop culture.
The entire episode centered around the launching a web site as a new sales tool. The whole episode was great, but one of my favorite parts (which most people may not have noticed) was when Kelly (who is using the web site for the first time) says something along the lines of: "Its just so much fun to drag the paper into the shopping cart, it makes me want to buy more".
To see this in mainstream television was great. The premise of a Rich Internet Application (RIA) is not only to maintain state on the client, but, more importantly, it is to make tasks easier, and to give a better user experience. When applied to sales applications, it is supposed to help make the user want to buy more.
Showing her dragging & dropping items into her cart, and making that kind of statement goes to show that the concepts of RIA are not just for techies and user experience designers anymore. There is a new way of building applications, and it is here to stay... my TV said so. :)
The entire episode centered around the launching a web site as a new sales tool. The whole episode was great, but one of my favorite parts (which most people may not have noticed) was when Kelly (who is using the web site for the first time) says something along the lines of: "Its just so much fun to drag the paper into the shopping cart, it makes me want to buy more".
To see this in mainstream television was great. The premise of a Rich Internet Application (RIA) is not only to maintain state on the client, but, more importantly, it is to make tasks easier, and to give a better user experience. When applied to sales applications, it is supposed to help make the user want to buy more.
Showing her dragging & dropping items into her cart, and making that kind of statement goes to show that the concepts of RIA are not just for techies and user experience designers anymore. There is a new way of building applications, and it is here to stay... my TV said so. :)
posted by Andrew Trice at 10/12/2007 09:54:00 AM
4 Comments:
was this the episode where they had the one dude going AGAINST the computer, and they took the pizza guy hostage? if so, i saw it and laughed my ass off... and oddly enough, I didnt take away from it what you did, but now thinking back, a bit... WAIT!!! HOLY SHIT, there's chuck norris at my door, i have to go... by andy...
Yep, that was the episode. It was right when Dwight freaked out on Kelly (while in competition with the computer).
P.S. watch out for Chuck. He's right behind you!
Here is another funny one. I am new to RIA dev and decided to become serious when I was tasked by DIA to write an analysis of emerging technologies. The military loves to use acronyms so imagine how much pleasure it gave me to hand over a report with the subheading DIARIA. I know it's childish, but how can you not laugh at that.
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