A digital conversation about building the next generation of the Web Sunday, June 26, 2022
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A digital conversation about building the next generation of the Web
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Increasing rates of change
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And increasing numbers of devices
Yet adaption is falling behind adoption7 years on and we still have not fully grasped the mobile challenge.
45% of the UK's largest print media titles still don’t offer content
suited to mobile phones
Yet adaption is falling behind adoption7 years on and we still have not fully grasped the mobile challenge.
Designers and developers are still arguing about adaptive VS responsive.
We haven’t seen anything yet! If we found mobile challenging, then how will we cope with the challenges presented by the Internet of Things?
So what’s getting in the way?
There is an increasing appetite and enthusiasm for dramatically enhanced multi-channel experiences but the primary obstacle for progress is what lies under the hood and behind the scenes.
• Established culture and practice
• Known methodologies and languages
• Separation of otherwise complimentary disciplines and teams
• Legacy systems architecture and technologies
• Entrenched suppliers and software providers
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It has been said that culture applies the breaks on technological progress.
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But culture is becoming increasingly comfortable with new technologies
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Digital proponents who once saw themselves as
disruptive, are now at risk of falling victim to disruption.
Every aspect of what we do is in flux
PHYSICAL LAYER
OPERATING SYSTEM
DATABASES
SOFTWARE/PROGRAMMING
DATA
MIDDLEWARE/API
CONTENT
DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS
EXPERIENCE
PROTOCOL LAYER
Every aspect of what we do is in flux
PHYSICAL LAYER
OPERATING SYSTEM
DATABASES
SOFTWARE/PROGRAMMING
DATA
MIDDLEWARE/API
CONTENT
DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS
EXPERIENCE
PROTOCOL LAYER
Knowledge and skills
Management and decision making
Long range planning
Some new ways of thinking have already become established
And some common themes are emerging
Even seeping into mainstream business
“To adapt, companies must operate not as machines but as
learning organisms, purposefully interacting with
their environment and continuously improving, based on experiments and feedback.”
David Gray, The Connected Company
But where do we go from here?
Andrew Larking
Amir Chaudhry
Becky Stewart
Adam Sefton