Clint Hall
Presentation Architect - Cerner Corporation
Presentations
CASE STUDY: Prototyping and Component Rendering at Cerner
With more than 1,500 clients worldwide, Cerner is the leading supplier of healthcare information technology. With over 57 solutions, deep knowledge and functionality, delivering an effective experience through the web is imperative. This case study will describe how our approach to rich web solutions has evolved, and will demonstrate a web prototyping approach that simulates not only server-supported AJAX, but also graceful degradation and even platform and browser independence. The goal of this session will not only be to share the unique experience, but to explore how this approach contrasts with those of the attendees as well.
The session will demonstrate our recent advances in prototyping web solutions, where one set of static HTML and JavaScript files provides a database, simulates live AJAX calls, demonstrates graceful degradation through loss of CSS and JavaScript, and provides tactile feedback to Designers and Engineers. The session will also delve into a portion of our unique Component Rendering System (CRS), which allows teams to revise and share UI objects (even large portions of workflow), quickly and passively across our vast catalog of solutions. Finally, it will discuss coping with delivering a rich experience through the HTTPS constraint, and together we will theorize what popular libraries and frameworks could do to make themselves more applicable to such an environment.
