New Flash Components Improve Usability
David Doull of Thinking in Flash wrote about Components and Conformity. In the article, he explains how Flash MX’s new components can be very useful for prototyping. Among other advantages, prototyping can help to identify usability issues:
A huge advantage of prototyping is that it lets you identify usability issues very early on the development of a project. You can show potential users a prototype and get their feedback long before the final.
Even if the prototype is nothing more than a collection of non-functional buttons, text boxes and menus you can still gather valuable usability information. By asking potential users, what do they expect each button will do, you will quickly learn if you have labelled your buttons appropriately. Asking users how they would complete a task, ie: what they would click on, you can easily identify if you have designed an interface that facilitates easy completion of the task.
- 4 Jun 02
- david doull, flash, interface, usability
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