On 6/26/06, Nick Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, interestingly, I dont think "graphic designers" have any kind of corner on usability. There are three disciplines involved here, programming, interface design, and graphic design. Some, though few people are good at all three. I think the biggest crime though is the assumption that good graphic designers have some inherent understanding of human interaction. Of course I presume here when you say designer you mean graphic designer which is usually what people mean. But great human interface designers (eg bruce tognazini Jacob Nielsen) dont (perhaps rarely do) have any facility with graphic design and art in my experience. I for one am on the opposite end of the spectrum being decent in human interface and coding, but unable to make decent artwork.
My point. Let a million flowers bloom. The tools are what they are. Making things easier will spawn lots of good stuff and lots of bad stuff. And so it goes.
Regards
Hank
I think you misunderstand me. I have nothing against flash sites. I'm referring to the poorly done ones where flash users were doing things merely because they now could, not because it was good design. I'm not saying anyone here falls into this category, but typically it was done by people who were solely developers and didn't have an ounce of design sense in their body, from my observations. My point is that Flex is a developer tool, and while some developers are pretty design savvy, most do not fall into that category so my fear is that if developers start using Flex to build sites, we'll be seeing a lot of sites springing up with lots of "neat" functionality with blurs and fades and slides and stuff, but zero usability and no quality user experience. Does that make more sense?
Well, interestingly, I dont think "graphic designers" have any kind of corner on usability. There are three disciplines involved here, programming, interface design, and graphic design. Some, though few people are good at all three. I think the biggest crime though is the assumption that good graphic designers have some inherent understanding of human interaction. Of course I presume here when you say designer you mean graphic designer which is usually what people mean. But great human interface designers (eg bruce tognazini Jacob Nielsen) dont (perhaps rarely do) have any facility with graphic design and art in my experience. I for one am on the opposite end of the spectrum being decent in human interface and coding, but unable to make decent artwork.
My point. Let a million flowers bloom. The tools are what they are. Making things easier will spawn lots of good stuff and lots of bad stuff. And so it goes.
Regards
Hank
On 6/25/06, Michael Schmalle < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> those who decide to use Flex to do website designs rank right with those who did all that other crap in the early days of flash with bouncing balls and forced site intros and such.
I have no opinion on this subject whatsoever but..
Would like to point out that this comment is ridiculous. There have been many successful flash websites(In the right context for the right target audience), this is just plain ignorance. I guess you were one of those bouncing ball guys right?
BTW, a statement with such force doesn't require a reply but I HAD TO :)
Peace, MikeOn 6/25/06, Jignesh Dodiya < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:thanx all for reply and wish many other give their ideas on this
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