Designing for Flex: Part 6 now online

5 December 2007, 13:16, by Jon

Hot on the heals of Part5: Designing Content Displays, Rob Adams has just posted up the next chapter of his excellent designing for flex articles, titled Part 6:Guiding with motion to the Adobe Flex Developer Center: Flex Interface Guide. If you have not read the other five parts, check them out first.

This chapter covers:

  • The differences between motion design in Flex applications and motion design in other mediums.
  • How to use motion to leverage users’ instinctual understanding of the physical world to enhance your application’s usability.
  • How to use screen to screen transitions to help guide users to the next area of interest and make it clear how to return.
  • How to use motion effects to provide feedback and focus your users’ attention.

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Yay! the first comment.


I couldn’t agree more. Almost all of the developers I have know would consider themselves poor at design but usability design, or user experience (UX), is a totally different topic and something that must be done to each project.

In my opinion almost all of UX is based on asking the right questions. When you ask the right UX question then the answer is obvious.

Comment by Dubai real estate portal — 10 October 2008 @ 06:32

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