What's a web app?

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Web apps are web sites that are made with open and common components of web design (HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript) to deliver an internet experience to users that is more like that of interacting with an application or program than what we have commonly experienced when visiting web pages through the years. In fact, the whole notion of "pages" generally takes a back seat in a web app to the experience of interacting with screens or portions of screens.

Web apps are not Android apps, iPhone apps or Window's apps that are created specifically for those operating systems and are capable of utilizing some features of mobile devices that web apps cannot (yet) such as the accelerometer (the thing that is aware of the orentation and movement of your phone). Web apps do have an advantage for developers/designers though in that they can run on multiple platforms and devices — a build once/run anywhere method of development that has obvious advantages of its own. While web apps rely on a device's web browser to function and actually reside at an address on the web, they can be added to a phone's desktop with an icon so that users can launch them directly, just like other apps.

Project Greene River, my redevelopment of Greensboro 101, entails making the site into a web app, essentially. I'll have more about my thinking on the ergonomics and user experience in another post, but I've been doing a lot of thinking about what it is Greensboro 101 can do and should do for users and how its current design has grown stale and deficient in meeting those goals.

I have no firm launch date yet, but it won't be long.