by Duncan McAlester, Michelangelo CapraroDuncan McAlester has come up with a book no one else was talking about -- but that we all knew had to be done.
Put together Flash and usability and you've got a home run! Duncan and his co-author, Michelangelo Capraro, have been thinking about, doing, and teaching the combination of Flash design, interface design, and usability since well before the rest of us. They love what you can do with Flash and they realize a lot of what is called bad Flash design is simply a matter of understanding purpose and user, then working through tangible design steps to get them what they need with nothing that takes away from what they need.
* Are you a Flash user constantly fighting the usability war?
Skip Intro is designed to help educate the Flash community specifically and designers/programmers at large that usability isn't a dirty word. It doesn't mean making boring pedestrian web sites, and it doesn't mean abandoning Flash. Quite the contrary, Flash offers advanced usability elements that traditional HTML websites could never hope to achieve. This book will show designers how to start thinking about their users and, more importantly, putting good, clean, Flash to work on the web. * Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface Design - by Duncan McAlester, Michelangelo CapraroPaperback: 272 pages Publisher: New Riders Publishing; 1st edition (April 11, 2002) * from the flash Department. Keywords for this item are: Flash, flash MX, animation, graphics, scripting, actions, components -- You can find many other titles from this department here!
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