Re: FLASH: re: "a cancer on the web called flash"

[Laura Mollett]

>>Maybe the next thing on his list is to turn TV into a text only medium...

> point being... is some people want to be ENTERTAINED.....<

>

> I think you hit it right there. I have this suspicion that the web will

> eventually supplant television altogether.


<snip>


> ..hmmm, on second thought, the Discovery Channel would be pretty damn a

> turn off if all it had to offer was the doctoral thesis, instead of the

> latest computer animated show on the origin of the Dinosaurs...


I think you're hitting it right on, really. I think the net will really be a

bit (or a lot ;) *more* than tv. Not just information, not just "watch me"

entertainment, but interactive media. Sometimes I think Flash designers

(myself included) do a lot of "watch me" when they could keep the

entertainment value but allow a more truly immersive (in my sense, not

barney's sense of the word) environment by involving the user. The trick

(and not an easy one) is how to do that without either frustrating ("what am

I supposed to do now, I don't get it") or insulting with over-simplified

instructions ("yeah, yeah, click here. i get it already.") Our lives will be

easier as far as that goes when there really is a user interface that most

people on the net understand. It's just too new. (and quite often something

is deemed as "not working" too fast - they do all these studies: people

don't understand unusually colored links, can't figure out how to navigate

such-and-so kind of site etc., but what the "savvy" know now, the "general

public will soon. Got to give them a little time.) Text information has a

place, but we have an opportunity here to present information in a truly

more appealing, understandable, useable, interactive medium - the textbooks

teach the lessons ;)


Laura


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