Overview

Are you a Flash user constantly fighting the usability war? Skip Intro is designed to help educate the Flash community specifically and designers/programmers at large that usability isn't a dirty word. It doesn't mean making boring pedestrian web sites, and it doesn't mean abandoning Flash. Quite the contrary, Flash offers advanced usability elements that traditional HTML websites could never hope to achieve. This book will show designers how to start thinking about their users and, more importantly, how to translate that understanding when they start designing or coding. Skip Intro moves beyond traditional usability books by shying away from listing examples of why this is wrong or why this is right. Instead, it guides designers through understanding the site requirements and their intended users and then starts them down the road of developing for those users, by taking them step-by-step through design scenerios, rather than providing strict rules of usability.

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Duncan McAlester (breathedesign.com) (BFA, Art Institute of Southern California) is an award-winning multimedia designer working in Laguna Beach, California. He has worked on projects for Lincoln/Mercury, Fox, Warner Bros. and Epson. He currently teaches a variety of classes, including a class on interface design at the University of California, Irvine Extension. Michelangelo Capraro has designed user experiences for TV, web sites, CD-ROMs, and handheld devices. He believes that art and usability do not need to be opposing forces. He has designed everything from games, to Intranets, to desktop applications for clients such as IBM, Disney, Fox, and Amnesty International. He currently lives in the California Bay area and works as the Visual Experience Designer for PalmSource, Inc.

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