Re: FLASH: FLASH 99% BAD

[Thorvald Neumann]

Hejsan!


Monday, October 30, 2000, 4:13:43 PM, Chris Lucania wrote:

> FLASH 99% BAD

> Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for October 29 is now online at:

> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html


What's wrong with it? It is informative and partly reasonable.


There are many Flash "designers" out in the WWW, who do not think on

the usability of their Flash "masterpiece".


Major concerns are IMHO:


- file sizes should be kept small (use more movies with smaller size

than one big movie...)


- designing against general usability guidelines (e.g. wrong side of

navigation, too much "flashing" and too much movement everywhere on

the screen, etc. etc.)


- fullscreen mode (disables people desktops, quite annoying when

desktop is set to 1600x1280...)


- navigational elements of the browser do not work within a Flash

movie (which e.g. leads to an overall back-button which navigates the

HTML core pages, and internal back-buttons within the Flash movie...)

--> You can emulate the buttons from Flash, but you cannot get the

--> browser to directly address you Flash movie... This would be a

--> cool feature...


Just some thoughts.


Considering Nielsen's concerns, it is obvious that there should be at

least a small HTML-page accompagning a Flash site.


And do not forget: Nielsen has another approach to webdesign, but I

would not call him a "web guru" as I read in some other magazines

earlier this year.


Best wishes,


   Thorvald Neumann

   Multimedia Developer




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