Posts Tagged ‘Usability’
Nov
15Using a plain Flex UI theme to show clients before styling
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Posted: 15th November 2007
Tags: Flex, prototyping, Usability, wireframe
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The default Flex 2 Aeon theme looks fairly polished and showing it to clients in the early stages of a project can have it’s disadvantages. For example a client may believe the project is closer to release than it is or if you use Adobe Flex for prototyping may believe that the default theme represents the final look and feel.
If you intend to customise the chrome of a flex app, showing a client the default look and feel not only leads the client into a false expectation of the finish product but, if the app is purely a prototype, may make a case for it being used for the foundation of production code or prevent an further exploration in to the visual design.
Ted Patrick has provided an excellent technique to overcome this.
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Nov
14Designing for Flex: Part 5 now online
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Posted: 14th November 2007
Tags: Flex, Usability
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Hi All,
Just a quick post. Rob Adams has just posted up the next installment of his excellent designing for flex articles, titled Part 5: Designing Content Displays to the Adobe Flex Developer Center: Flex Interface Guide. If you have not read the other four parts, check them out first.
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Nov
5FIG: User Experience Design resource for Adobe Flex
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Posted: 5th November 2007
Tags: Flex, Interaction Design, Usability, User Centered Design
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Back in September, Adobe released a new section to the Flex Developer Center, called FIG or Flex Interface Guide. This is an excellent resource for anyone involved in the Interaction Design (IxD) or User Experience (Ux) of RIAs or any developers who want to make more user focussed apps. There are several articles still in draft about designing for Flex. One of the upcoming articles that will be particularly of interest and relevance to the new possibilities of designing RIAs is the use of motion, as a tool to guide users.
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