Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface Design (Paperback) (跳過介紹：Flash 可用性與介面設計)

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword.
Introduction.
1. Bad Flashers Anonymous.
2. Basic Training.

SECTION I. HVPART BOTHUR EXHIBIT SITE.

3. Overview—A Comfortable Situation.
4. A Good Experience from the Start.
5. Scrolling Without Boundaries.
6. Less Cluttered and More Usable.
7. A Point of Flexibility.

SECTION II. GROCERYCLICK.COM SITE DESIGN.

8. Overview—Convenience in a Flash.
9. Tabbed Windows—Convenient Access to Supplementary Information.
10. Needles and Haystacks—Site Searches.

SECTION III. WIND-AUTOMATA DEVELOPER SITE.

11. Overview—A Familiar Setting.
12. A Simple Hierarchy.
13. Tool Tips—Know Before You Go.
14. The End….

SECTION IV. APPENDIXES.

Appendix A. What Every Interface Designer Should Know.
Appendix B. Usability Resources.
Appendix C. Flash and Design Resources.
Index.