The Joy of Use
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Richard Edwards - Published 26/11/2009
I’m beginning to wonder if our experience with consumer-oriented applications and services is setting an expectation that in-house and off-the-shelf enterprise applications can never live up to in terms of their ‘joy of use’. With ‘cool’ and ‘sexy’ now de rigueur for consumer apps, I sense that the time is fast approaching when line-of-business applications will be expected to be the same, albeit in a pin-striped suit and polished pair of Oxfords.