Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.