http://blog.vialogix.com/articles/2005/11/07/the-last-mile en-us 40 <p>At Vialogix, our belief is that despite the enormous amount of money spent on Internet-enabled tools, the vast majority of web applications have under-served their users by not putting enough emphasis on ease-of-use.</p> <p>Today the technology has become a commodity. Flavors change (Ajax, <span class="caps">PHP</span>, Ruby on Rails, etc) work gets shipped offshore and more companies try to push more info through the lower cost channel of a web browser. But the vast majority of “technology” companies still don’t value the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_mile">Last Mile</a> enough to make it actually work for the end users. Very few companies have studied the costs associated with <span class="caps">NOT</span> making a preferred interface.</p> <p><br></p> Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:45:00 -0500 urn:uuid:5de1ec80-8e75-4341-acf4-daf11269c1d9 Rob http://blog.vialogix.com/articles/2005/11/07/the-last-mile design user interface web