www.flash99good.com is 99 percent something else. Hard to tell from the design (on 1024x768) there is a whole lot more to scroll down. My view cuts off just below the book bit, which seems complete, with little hinting to scroll down. Menu tooltips were annoying. Classic back button problems?

I'm willing to go with the oldline Soviets on this one. A perfect system and design. Now if we can only get rid of the humans messing it up...

Posted by: (the other)JS on June 7, 2002 08:27 AM

 

The more I think about it the more Macromedia are pulling off a blinder.

they know usability experts rubbish the way their technology is used , but they know it needs to gain credibility in the eyes of the common man by gaining credibility.

What do they do...bring in the talking head...the man that everyone knows is THE usability expert. If he says it is good and puts together something that says this is how it should be used to be good, then everyone will start to believe that flash is good.

Now I know NN Groups secret in lean times...turn the company into a PR house!

I guarantee a year from now everyone will be using flash because it will be seen as 99% good.

Posted by: JB on June 7, 2002 11:43 AM

 

Once you get past the splash page (or at least, I'll call it a splash page), there's an introduction by the site owner which makes a great statement about how he's enabled the back button (a common problem with Flash sites). Guess what? The back button doesn't work on that very page. Neither do your keyboard's Page Up / Page Down keys, as he's incorporated a Flash scroll bar instead of letting the browser do the job.

Usable? Do me a favour.

Posted by: Alan Fisher on June 10, 2002 10:47 AM