“Flash animations and GIF animations approach graphics in fundamentally different ways. Flash graphics are composed of vectors — mathamatically-defined points and lines. GIF animations are bitmaps: they are composed of small dots, or ‘pixels,’ each one having its own assigned color.”

“Flash receives a great deal of criticism from usability and web standards advocates, and their arguments are usually valid. What the critics fail to understand is that the designers are usually responsible for the lack of usability, not the program itself. Flash has the capacity to create usable sites, but requires that designers follow a few guidelines.”

“…forecasters say that by 2002, most people will be accessing Web content using handheld devices instead of PCs. Disconcerting? You bet. Only a handful of developers are actually working to deliver content to alternative devices, and the rest of us are wondering how to negotiate these alien lands. An overview of these new technologies will help you get comfortable with the things you need to know.”

“…forecasters say that by 2002, most people will be accessing Web content using handheld devices instead of PCs. Disconcerting? You bet. Only a handful of developers are actually working to deliver content to alternative devices, and the rest of us are wondering how to negotiate these alien lands. An overview of these new technologies will help you get comfortable with the things you need to know.”

“…The trickiest bit has been developing metrics for what’s ’successful.’ While I can say that a user can get to a product in X clicks or X seconds, that’s not really successful. What’s more important, and well-nigh impossible to measure, is what happens afterward. Any pointers/suggestions to usability engineering for the mushier domain of consumer-oriented, content-heavy sites will be greatly appreciated…” Here are the responses: Re: User Testing General Audience Web Sites — Advice?.

“Flash receives a great deal of criticism from usability and web standards advocates, and their arguments are usually valid. What the critics fail to understand is that the designers are usually responsible for the lack of usability, not the program itself. Flash has the capacity to create usable sites, but requires that designers follow a few guidelines.”

“Flash animations and GIF animations approach graphics in fundamentally different ways. Flash graphics are composed of vectors — mathamatically-defined points and lines. GIF animations are bitmaps: they are composed of small dots, or ‘pixels,’ each one having its own assigned color.”

“Technical Notes for Flash.” This site features some good-lookin’ tips, tricks, tutorials and downloads.

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“Navigation is a limited metaphor for hypermedia and website use that potentially constrains our understanding of human-computer interaction. In the present paper we trace the emergence of the navigation metaphor and the empirical analysis of navigation measures in usability evaluation before suggesting an alternative concept to consider: shape. The shape concept affords, we argue, a richer analytic tool for considering humans’ use of digital documents and invokes social level analyses of meaning that are shared among discourse communities who both produce and consume the information resources.”

It’s really just a handful bullet points from CHI99 SIG: User interfaces for electronic product catalogs.

“Navigation is a limited metaphor for hypermedia and website use that potentially constrains our understanding of human-computer interaction. In the present paper we trace the emergence of the navigation metaphor and the empirical analysis of navigation measures in usability evaluation before suggesting an alternative concept to consider: shape. The shape concept affords, we argue, a richer analytic tool for considering humans’ use of digital documents and invokes social level analyses of meaning that are shared among discourse communities who both produce and consume the information resources.”

It’s really just a handful bullet points from CHI99 SIG: User interfaces for electronic product catalogs.

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