[thelist] Jakob Nielsen [was Anti-aliasing]

Luther, Ron Ron.Luther at COMPAQ.com
Wed Feb 27 13:14:00 CST 2002


Hi Paul,


Here's a slightly different take. I'd like to have and learn Flash here at the office in order to IMPROVE "usability". ... albeit a slightly different kind of "usability".

I'm in an intranet reporting enviroment here.  Some of the reports I build have some fairly sophisticated business applications.  I can write instructions until I'm blue in the face ... but if I could add a 'step-by-bleeding-step' "how-to" Flash animation off to the side of the on-line documentation I think it would better communicate to the users ... and *improve* the "usability" of the reports.  {Pretty similar to the 'how to use your new model cell phone animations'.}

It's not likely in view of current budgetary restrictions, but I think the documentation-enhancement potential or 'teaching' aspects of Flash could have a lot of value and "usability".


My 0.0388008 AUD,
... couldn't resist!       ;-)
(My personal site is hosted in Australia.)

RonL.
[current 0.02 USD]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cowan [mailto:paul at wishlist.com.au]

1) ... Nielsen's ... NOT saying it's "bad", full stop. He's saying it's bad FOR USABILITY.

there's my 2-cents-US-divided-by-whatever-godforsaken-abysmal-exchange-rate-the-poor-ol d-Aussie-dollar-is-sitting-at-now.



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