[CLUE-Talk] Books on software usability

[Randy Arabie]

On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 jbrockmeier at earthlink.net wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> *snip* 
> 
> > Nice image. :) I've never met anyone that really like Flash,
> > either...occassionally, I've been pointed to one of those "funny" sites that
> > have some animation done in Flash, but it's not directly selling something.
> 
> Yeah - it's fine if you want to do something that's optional,
> but since it's a commercial product and they have to keep selling
> more and more - they try to convince site designers that it's good
> for everything. Now they're trying convince developers to use Flash
> for the entire site - which is a terrifying concept.  

I've recently ran across a site designed in that.  The site was for a small hotel 
in Munich, all I wanted to do was check availability and make a reservation.  Their 
whole site was flash based!  I considered just finding another hotel, but they were 
recommended and the geographic location was very good. Fortunately for them, I was 
able to find an email address to them, so I was able to do business with them that way.  
I expessed my dismay to them, and I sent an email to the webmaster.  I told them that 
flash is nice...but it should not be a requirement.  I told them they were closing 
doors to potential customers.
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Cheerio!

Randy

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