Flash Application Design Solutions

Flash's reputation has improved, due to a general increase in usability awareness, and improved software features. These days, the average Flash site can be just as usable and compact as its HTML counterpartsand better looking and more dynamic. But how do you design and develop a professional, usable, and visually appealing Flash site, that provides users with a memorable and enjoyable online experience? In Flash Design Solutions, Craig Bryant and Ka Wai Cheung show you how.

Auteur
Ka Wai Cheung is a software architect and award-winning web designer specializing in developing usable web applications. He has a particular interest in creating rich internet experiences in Macromedia Flash and object-oriented programming theory. Having developed over a hundred web applications for industries ranging from law to entertainment, Ka Wai is a lead architect at Dizpersion Technologies, a company focused on RSS content distribution. Ka Wai has written for several online publications and resource sites including Digital Web Magazine (http://www.digital-web.com), ActionScript.org (http://www.actionscript.org), and HOW design online (http://www.howdesign.com). He writes on anything from web standards and usability design to software development theory. He logs his past web projects and writings on his personal portfolio site, Project99 (http://www.project99.tv). Ka Wai has degrees in computing and information systems, mathematics, and integrated science from Northwestern University in Chicago. When not working on the web, Ka Wai enjoys playing guitar, eating foods from all four corners of the world, attending sporting events and soaking up the always warm Chicago sun.

Texte du rabat

*Over one million Flash developers worldwide. The book supports the new version of Flash, due later on this year

*The only up-to-date book that focuses on usable Flash design

*Mimics Dan Cederholm's best-selling Web Standards Solutions-broadening the Solutions series

Contenu
Introducing Flash Usability.- Flash: Then, Now, Later.- Setting up Your Flash Environment.- The Usability Solutions.- A Basic Selection System.- Navigation Menus.- Content Loading.- Inventory Views and Selection Devices.- Data Filtering.- Forms.- State Management and Storage.- Help Tips.- Browser History.- Liquid Layouts.- Embedding Flash.- Putting The Pieces Together.- Planning for Usability.- The Usable Bookstore.