User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

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.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

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

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