Re: FLASH: Posted without permission Now Does Flash suck

[Dorian Nisinson]

	I do agree with what you have said and I wanted to add a bit.

	

	If I was an architect hired to build a store, first I would get the

specifications for the job: X number of square feet, style of the

building, amenities etc. The client wants customers to come right in and

buy. He wants delivery of his stock to be quick and efficient. He wants

rest rooms on all floors and a storage facility for his stock. If I give

the client something that has a long tunnel to get into the store and

make the real entry into the actual selling floor one of several

strangely marked doorways, and maybe the doors don't quite fit true and

the loading dock doesn't work with the kind of trucks that normally

deliver the goods, should I blame my T-square or the drafting table? I

don't think so.

	Flash is a whole lot more than a T-square but it is still a tool. The

tool-user makes the decisions. Design is the issue not the program used

to implement the design. The whole wonderful part of Flash is that it

enables the designer to make decisions about many more aspects of a site

than HTML does.

	I have seen many many html sites that are much slower to load than a

Flash site, and certainly uglier and less intuitive to navigate. All

these issues, speed, interface and navigation are products of thought,

not products of tools.


Dorian


Kevin Jackson wrote:

> 

> I've been following this thread and find it interesting that many are

> complaining that the sky is falling because of the views of a few critics.

> FLASH will not make a site good or bad. The content and the creator will do

> that. You see people rip FLASH sites in here all the time that if you showed

> to most people they would go crazy for.

> 

> 1)    We have seen a lot of sites so it takes more to impress us.

> 2)    The critics at these sites have opinions. Nothing more. As a designer

> take the part that makes sense, address it and make a better site

> 3)    If a Flash site doesn't change it is no different than an old magazine

> (or for that matter most HTML sites) Who does want to see the same things

> over and over. Give them a skip button. Change the content. Give them a

> reason to watch and they will.

> 4)    You said "Sad to say, I have read the magazine which was given to me

> by one of the radio stations I'm doing and I agree with the arguments about

> flash, graphics and marketing." You didn't say what they said. Regardless

> see point number 2.

> 5)   Then you said, "People are tired of Flash.  I hear it over and over and

> over again how tired people are of Flash." I have never met anyone who has

> said after seeing any Flash page I showed them that it didn't look as good

> as HTML. Most people are really excited by it.

> 

> I think we are hearing from a lot of jaded people. They are probably the

> same type that thought that TV and Moving Pictures were gimmicks and not

> "real"  communication mediums. Flash and the Web will continue to evolve and

> things will get to be clich�'s but I don't see people choosing lifeless

> technology to the interactive experience which Flash can be.

> 

> Kevin Jackson

> Triskelian Design

>

kjacksontriskelian [dot] com

> 

> BTW, many of the people who criticize Flash probably like the "creative,

> artistic sites" on the web. I often find these the least user friendly sites

> on the net and end up thinking why bother. They are generally loved by the

> same type of people who created them. They are like the art films that play

> in the small theatres to rave critical reviews while the masses of people go

> to All-Star Wrestling. I think you can aim somewhere in between and develop

> good content. (As far from Wrestling as possible, I hope)

> 

> As Barnum once said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the

> intelligence of the American public." I think some of these people think too

> much  instead of asking other people their opinion.

> 

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