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Views and forms: principles of task flow for web applications (part 1)

Bob Baxley writes about the fundamental principles of task flow for web applications. To quote:

The hypertext environment of the Web presumes a style of unfettered browsing and exploration that is not particularly conducive to the full and valid completion of specific tasks, operations, or database transactions. Creating web applications that support the full and valid completion of specific tasks, operations, and database transactions, therefore requires some understanding of how to manipulate the medium to that purpose. To wit, the following few thousand words serve to describe both the fundamental building blocks of HTML-based web applications as well as the three ways in which those blocks can be arranged to provide various types of task flows.

Posted by jamesr on May 15, 2003 10:45 PM
Categories: Interface design, Web development