The traditional definition of a dynamic web application is about a collection of programs executed at server-side to provide content for clients. These types of web applications produce content at server-side and deliver it to their clients via multiple pages. In result, the client-side has the responsibility to render the content and perform a limited amount of calculations to increase the performance and user experience.    Meteor is a web framework designed for developing Single Page Applications and compared with traditional web frameworks, it takes a new approach in which most of the computations are done at the client-side. This leads to having the server-side primarily used for data storage and secondarily performing a limited amount of computations based on the Model View View-Model pattern.    This thesis tries to examine how web development is affected by Meteor framework from different angles by performing an experimental analysis on Meteor framework. It will investigate different attributes of Meteor framework used for developing a real-world application and finally concludes by presenting the advantages and disadvantages of using it.

This essay is inspired by an earlier essay written in 2012 by Sanna Johansson and Erika Winther. In their essay they examined Sweden’s municipalities’ tourist websites and graded these based on a number of Web 2.0 criterias. In this essay we examine tourist websites belonging to the 15 most popular tourist destinations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Ireland. The purpose of this study is to give a general overview of how far these countries’ tourist websites have come in terms of web development, in relation to Web 2.0. By observing the websites based on a number of criteria, we place them on a scale between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Some examples of criteria that are being studied are whether the websites are interactive and if the destinations make use of social media. We also examine whether there is a correlation between a country’s tourism revenue and its’ tourist websites. The results show that the mean value of all observed websites is Web 1.4. None of the examinated websites can be categorized as Web 2.0. The results also show that the countries are similar in terms of web development, apart from Northern Ireland and Wales where the scores are substantially lower than the other countries’. There is some correlation between a country’s tourism revenue and its tourist websites in terms of web development. The country that has recieved the highest score in our study is also the country that has the highest tourism revenues, and vice versa. / Denna uppsats har sin utgångspunkt i en kandidatuppsats skriven år 2012 av Sanna Johansson och Erika Winther. I deras uppsats observerade de svenska kommunernas turistwebbplatser och gav dessa en gradering utifrån hur pass mycket de uppfyllde olika kriterier för Web 2.0. I denna uppsats studerar vi istället turistwebbplatser tillhörande de 15 mest populära resmålen i Sverige, Norge, Danmark, England, Skottland, Nordirland, Wales och Irland. Syftet med studien är att få en generell uppfattning om hur långt dessa länders turistwebbplatser har kommit i webbutvecklingen. Genom att observera webbplatserna, undersöker vi utifrån ett antal kriterier hur långt dessa har kommit i webbutvecklingen i relation till Web 2.0. Beroende på hur många kriterier en webbplats uppfyller placeras den på en skala mellan Web 1.0 och Web 2.0. Exempel på kriterier som har undersökts är om webbplatserna är interaktiva och om de är kopplade till sociala medier. Studien undersöker även om det finns ett samband mellan ett lands turistintäkter och dess turistwebbplatser. Resultatet visar att medelvärdet för samtliga studerade turistwebbplatser är Web 1.4. Ingen av webbplatserna kan kategoriseras som Web 2.0. Resultatet visar att webbutvecklingen inte skiljer sig nämnvärt mellan de olika länderna, bortsett från Nordirland och Wales som visar på låga resultat. Det finns en viss korrelation mellan ländernas turistintäkter och deras turistwebbplatser. Det land som fått högst resultat i vår undersökning är även det land som har högst turistintäkter, och likväl är det land som fått lägst resultat i vår undersökning det land som har minst turistintäkter.

Mass production of consumer products is both wasteful and limit the consumers' power to influence the design of what they are buying. When shopping for a product, the customer must choose between a range of specific products with limited variations. What if the customer could make all the design choices, creating and buying the product according to his or her own needs? A 3D product generator holding a configurable model of a product was created to replace static content in online stores and give creative power to customers. This work aimed at creating an effective 3D product generator by evaluating how users experience the design of and interaction with it, and finding general design goals when introducing interactive 3D content in static 2D environments. A prototype of a 3D product generator in a generic online storefront was implemented in two iterations, improving on and evaluating the design through usability testing. The evaluation of the final prototype suggested that the interface was indeed effective in both design and interaction. This work concludes that user feedback is crucial to creating a successful user experience, which in turn is important when creating interfaces for product configuration.

With the advent of techniques such as AJAX, the bar has been raised for what users have come to expect from web applications. However, although web application development often starts off simple, limitations in the web programming model might start to show when the business requirements become more complex. To successfully implement large-scale web application, software developers need to have knowledge of a big set of complementary technologies. This thesis describes the implementation of a prototype of a central hotel property management system using web technologies. These technologies are then compared to an alternative set of technologies, which are used for implementing a second prototype; a stand-alone desktop client distributed using Java Web Start. The thesis highlights some of the current problems with the web programming model and shows how the user experience can be improved by instead using desktop technologies.

This master thesis report presents the development of a geographical visualization system using taxi data. The system uses a large data base from a taxi company that have previously never used the data for visualization purposes. The taxi company requested a system that processes the data on a server on demand and visualizes it on a web client using heat map visualization as a primary visualization technique. The web client was supposed to be easy to use, provide deeper knowledge about the business of a taxi company and at the same time kept interactive with low latency for data requests. A big part of the thesis focuses on techniques for decimating an original data set to a smaller representational data set to be used for heat map visualization and sent to a web client from a server. The project continues by optimizing the system to keep latency to a minimum and finally developing a web client to explore the data. The result is a system with promising latency that is easy to use for exploring data and gaining a deeper knowledge about a taxi business.

The aim of this thesis is the research in modern web development tools to demonstrate in which ways can this raised technologies help to make a real application more user friendly, easy to maintain and extend, and more reliable. Some new approaches to Web applications will be presented in comparison with the traditional way, and a real application will be redesigned for including the lasts advances in Web technologies. / Analysis and improvement of a publication System

Denna rapport redogör för det examensarbete som genomförts på uppdrag av designbyrån Spektra Design. Arbetet gick ut på att skapa en hemsida till den latinamerikanska filmfestivalen Panoramica, som anordnas för första gången i Stockholm i september 2015. Jag har skapat designen till hemsidan samt utvecklat sidan från grunden i Wordpress. Panoramica har en vision om att bilda ett underlag för ett distributions- och marknadsföringsnätverk som sprider latinamerikansk film i Sverige. De vill att festivalen ska bli ett ansikte utåt för latinamerikansk film i Sverige och arbetar för att ”stimulera utbyte och dialog mellan olika etniska grupper i Sverige genom att uppdatera utbudet av berättelser från Latinamerika.” En stor del av en webbsida är dess design. Designen bidrar till det övergripande intrycket av hemsidan, men också om den uppfattas som lättförståelig eller komplicerad. Denna uppsats undersöker hur man kan tillämpa normkritisk teori i en praktisk designprocess. Jag har även undersökt principer kring användarvänlighet och Användarupplevelse. Resultatet av arbetet är en färdig hemsida där fokus ligger på festivalens fokus: film. Det är enkelt att läsa om varje film, se trailers och skapa sitt eget program. Färgerna och typografin är kraftig och karaktäristisk och tillåts ta plats, i ett försök att bryta mot den västerländska minimalistiska formgivningstrenden och lyfta det latinamerikanska. Under arbetet har jag kommit fram till att det inte är ett måste att bryta normer eller konventioner för hur en sida bör se ut. Det viktiga är att ha med sig frågor om vem som får synas, vad som är normen i ett sammanhang och vem designen är till för. Det är viktiga frågor att ha med sig i en designprocess även om de är svårbesvarade. / This report describes the work commissioned by design bureau Spektra Design. The task was to create a website for the Latin American Film Festival Panoramica, organized for the first time in Stockholm in September 2015. I have created the design for the website and developed the site from scratch in Wordpress. Panoramica has a vision to form a basis for a distribution and marketing network spreading Latin American film in Sweden. They want the festival to become a public face for Latin American film in Sweden and works to "promote exchanges and dialogue between different ethnic groups in Sweden by updating the range of stories from Latin America." A large portion of the website is its design. The design contributes to the overall impression of the site, but also if it is perceived as easy to understand or complicated. This paper examines how one can apply critical theory in a practical design process. The outcome of the work is a complete website where the focus is on film. It's easy to read about each movie, watch trailers, and create your own program. The colors and the typography is strong and distinctive and is allowed to take place, in an effort to break the Western minimalist design trend and highlight the Latin American aspects of the design. During the work I have come to the conclusion that breaking norms or conventions of how a web page should look like is not necessarily a must. The key is to keep asking yourself: Who is represented, who is the norm and who is the design for? These are important issues to bring into a design process even if they are difficult to answer.

It has become more important how to communicate via the Internet. It is necessary to highlight interesting features and to capture the visitors interest. Members of Jönköping Sport dance club (JSDK) were not quite satisfied with their website. The purpose of this study was therefore to create a design for a website which met the demands made by the members and also appealed to other visitors.

Detta är en avhandling om hur vi utfört ett projekt som ger vår kund Ninetech en enkel översikt av loggar. Letande av specifik information såsom loggar i stora system kan vara tidskrävande. Så var fallet för företaget Ninetech. Företagets vilja var därav att ha en webbplats för att presentera loggar i ett översiktligt format. Webbplatsens syfte var att underlätta och minska tiden vid letande efter loggar. Att förkorta tiden är viktigt eftersom loggarna innehåller värdefull information som företaget använder för att lösa supportärenden. Webbplatsen som skapats är en fullständig produkt som levererats till företaget och körs i produktion. I projektet har vi haft en nära kontakt med kund, därav har en agil metod tillämpats. Som resultat har webbplatsen tillfört behovet att finna loggar snabbt och enkelt. Webbplatsen har blivit en del av Ninetechs vardagliga arbete. Störst fokus i avhandlingen ägnas åt vyn som presenterar loggar. / This is a dissertation on how we performed a project that gives our customer Ninetech a simple overview of logs. Searching of specific information such as logs in large systems can be time consuming. This was the case for the company Ninetech. Therefore, the company’s will was to have a website to present the logs in a simple format. The website’s purpose was to facilitate and reduce the time when searching for logs. It is important to shorten the time because the logs contain valuable information that the company uses to resolve support issues. The website created is a complete product delivered to the company and is currently running in production. In the project, we have had a close contact with the customer, hence has an agile method applied. As a result, the website has brought the need to find logs quickly and easily. The website has become a part of Ninetech's everyday work. The main focus of the dissertation is devoted to the view that presents logs.

Surfing the web has moved from the stationary computers to mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. As the technology moves further and more devices comes out on the market this is a trend that will continue. This makes it more important for web developers to adapt and make their websites fit not only for one device. The website needs to fit all devices. Since many of these devices are using wireless connections, the website performance has also become even more important in order to give the users a good experience.   Responsive web design is an approach for designing and developing web pages. By using the three techniques of flexible grid layout, flexible images and media, and media queries, websites can get a design that fits all devices. Responsive web techniques will also make the web page perform better on each device since it makes the web page adapt to its environment. There are several performance techniques that can be applied to a website in order to increase performance and loading time. Responsive web design including performance techniques can together make a great impact on a website's loading speed and user experience.   This thesis embraces this approach for web development. By developing a design theory, a website emerges where these approaches of web development have been implemented. During the development of the website the experiences implementing this approach and techniques is discussed. The website developed for this thesis was able to finish loading below 4 seconds on a mobile device using a 3G connection. We argue that responsive web design and performance techniques can help a website immensely to increase its user experience and performance.