That's what Jack Bellis at UsabilityInstitute.com is saying :
I clicked on Zoho and never looked back at the other links. Ho ho ho... in 10 minutes my school-age daughter had a database in her home page without my fingers touching the keyboard. Zoho has all sorts of served, office-style tools, and I can't figure out what their cost basis is other than free, but who cares.
I've labeled this a "usability" advance, but that's a provocative point. The usability of Zoho's App Creator isn't the items in its interface, but the premise of the tool itself. (Mind you, it is full of spectacular usability... its scripting tool is in fact a huge usability model, a very strongly menu-supported command syntax, as are many other items in the interface.) I suppose my point is that the usability of the web has increased. I continue to maintain that online database apps are on a par with the technology advance of the Xerox machine and publishing in general, with the ability to facilitate mass movements of popular action... social upheaval... change... revolutions.
Viva la Revolución! Try Zoho Creator now.
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