With increasing number of organisations that are presenting app offerings, the app space is indeed getting crowded along with blurring lines of differentiation for the users. How does one make a call for balancing native device capacity with restrictions by platform and what impact does this hold for creativity as well skill sets in the developer community? We intend to provide an insight gained during our journey, comparing and contrasting the vastly underrated area of web app development and the increasingly deeper hooks they are providing to native apps within our goals of engaging those already in the museum and more importantly ;bringing the museum to visitors who are on the outside.
Originally presented at the Oxford University ICT conference 2013 .
http://www.ictf.ox.ac.uk/conference/2013/
7. The WebApp way
ü Avoids Vendor locking
ü Rapid Prototyping
ü Instant publishing
ü Platform neutral
ü Desktop friendly UI
ü Run with it !
X Monetisation *
X Underutilization
X No Access to hardware *
X Push notification *
X “feels like cheating”
10. Tools of the trade
Dreamweaver
Notepad++
Smultron
dashcode
11. • Instant prototyping.
• No coding.
• All drag and drop.
• One free project.
• View instantly on devices.
• Unbelievably simple.
Live Demo
Result of 4 minute live demo
https://codiqa.com/
12. Challenges : the web app way
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Text is your enemy !
Orient Guide
speeds
Pacify
13. Applications tending to be well designed websites
Mobile Web customized for Desktops
Create more vs code more
The Road Ahead
More parallels drawn to highway signage than conventional designProvide decision points for user. Provide feedback that ‘something has happened’OrientationCMS anyone ?The power of NOMetricsInternal only sites Themes and filesLatenciesStab and click buttonsMultiple versions of imagesText is your enemy. HTML + JS knowledge only
All applications will vie to be well designed websites. As a creative, I would look to implement than code at the first instance. I know this is not geeky but eventually you do dive into it so it balances the karma.Increasingly, mobile sites would be optimized for Desktop experience.
