Don’t Forget the Tutorials Jakob
I was playing around with Flash MX today and thought I would check out the tutorials to see if they could show me anything new and exciting. I didn’t find much. However, I did notice that the introduction tutorial featured a particularly unusable flavor of navigation. The link titles didn’t appear until I moused over the buttons. It’s common to see this kind of navigation on the Web, but I thought it was interesting that Macromedia would encourage it in one of their product tutorials. Macromedia, (I know you’re listening), if you’re really serious about usability, you might want to consider the impact that your product tutorials have on future websites.
- 24 Jun 02
- flash, software, usability, web design
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“Macromedia, (I know your listening), if you’re really serious about usability….”
Hey, watch out for appropriate use of apostrophes there, fella…. ;-)
Yup, tutorial creators are just as fallible as the rest of us human critters. I can’t change what has already made it through production, but I’d invite you to send that feedback directly to the leaders of the Flash development team so they realize what slipped through:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/
(Aside: I agree with you on having to mouse over something to see what it does… those presentations go through many reviews, sometimes excruciatingly so, but I also wish they had reworked it to show what it did before you did anything.)
tx,
jd/mm
John Dowdell on 24 Jun 02