RE: UKNM: Usability and design...

[Stewart Dean]

Exactly.


The ego of the designer / technical lead is having less and sway on an

increasingly savvy audience. The original thrill of having flash on a site

has worn off - people want to do thing, learn things, talk to others the way

they want to. If you don't provide that then they will vote with their mice.


If you want to loose customers feel free to add a flash splash page to your

site - it's you money you're burning.


For a great collection of ego lead sites (I think the usual term is

art-wank) see:


www.linkdup.com


As a foot note:


It does include one of the best Flash only shopping sites I've ever seen

(see it's a fine line) www.barneys.com  which is not online yet but soon

will be. The navigation system is fun - I'd be interested to see if it can

stand heavy use.


>

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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Dave Ellender [dellendercenta [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:dellendercenta [dot] co [dot] uk)]

> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 6:28 AM

>

To: uk-netmarketingmail [dot] chinwag [dot] com

> Subject: RE: UKNM: Usability and design...

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>

>

> 	Usability is a goal, a moving target.

>

> 	Good design, in its broad sense of human-computer

> interaction, aims

> to discover what users want to achieve (say, book a flight

> ticket within

> five minutes), implements a way of doing this and then

> measures to see if it

> is being achieved.


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