Conclusion

Users’ expectations are on the rise. The web is aging and it needs to be revamped.

Now that there are several platforms that users resort to for different needs, with each platform having its own best-offerings, there is a need to converge such best-offerings of each platform in all other platforms whenever applicable to create an ideal and best-of-all-words. For example, there is no reason today why Rich Interactive Components (RIC) such as accordion, carousel, wheel, wall, dock, parent-child panels, configurators, mixers, selectors, and the like, which have been historically available on the desktop, should not also be available on the web.

Websites are morphing into full-fledged web applications of all types from enterprise applications to games. Such transformation requires a more thorough and disciplined approach to architecting websites beyond being online stores, or worse, online brochures. So far, web design has been page-centric suffering from the limitations of the browser and HTML. The websites of the future will be based on RIA platforms. They will have a broad architecture that covers content, functions, navigation, user interface, and system requirements to provide a minimum industrial robustness along with high usability and very rich user experience.