UI Hall of Fame/Shame

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UI Hall of Fame/Shame

• November 27
• Yelena Mejova

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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8 /
CS3

• is an authoring environment for creating
  interactive content for digital, web, and mobile
  platforms
• Useful features
• Integrated with Photoshop and Illustrator
• Provides ActionScript tools such as intelliSense
  and a debugger
• CS3 provides built-in mobile device skins
• Lots of help and documentation

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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8
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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8
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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8

• Consistency
• Plenty of common keyboard shortcuts
• Standard icons and menus

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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8

• Customization
• Move/hide tool bars (can move to another screen)
• Customize keyboard shortcuts
• Customize ActionScript color coding
• Turn the warning messages off/on

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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8

• Visibility
• Graying out instead of removing options
• Feedback
• Properties and other tool bars update with every
  selection
• Progress bars, always know whats going on

• Readability
• Grouping menu items in no more than 6
• Speak users language

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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8

• Organizing the movie/application file -
  Programmable Objects
• A hierarchy of library objects
• Reuse of code (something like OOP)
• Each object has its own properties, timeline, and
  code

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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8

• Selecting Objects
• Object explorer can select frames for objects,
  objects within objects, etc.

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Hall of FameMacromedia Flash Professional 8

• Pros
• Powerful tool
• Highly customizable
• Lots of help and tutorials (with Flash Pro
  package and online)
• Cons
• Tiny menu borders (need good eyesight and a
  steady hand)
• Complicated, can be overwhelming
• Not free

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Hall of ShameGreyhound Ticket Center
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Hall of ShameGreyhound Ticket Center
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Hall of ShameGreyhound Ticket Center
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Hall of ShameGreyhound Ticket Center
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Hall of ShameGreyhound Ticket Center

• Pros
• It works
• Cons
• Got to call in to make sure it works
• Have patience

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Sources

• Macromedia Flash Professional
• http//www.adobe.com/products/flash/
• Greyhound
• https//www.greyhound.com/