Re: Flash Less Flashy

At 01:46 PM 6/6/01 -0700, Ben Ocean wrote:
>Hi;
>I am looking for some tasteful examples of Flash that are less flashy than 
>Macromedia promotes on their site. I'm a follower of Jakob Nielsen's 
>philosophy and believe that Flash usually tends to detract from usability. 
>However, I now have a client that really does need Flash. Can you folks 
>give me a few examples of Web sites where Flash is used yet isn't 
>ridiculously overdone to the point of being less of commercial value than 
>it is art?

Ben,

While I would immediately concede that it pushes hard at the margins of
your criteria as it relates to being "overdone" (at least insofar as
loadtime is concerned)......

http://www.estudio.com/ 

constitutes a site that is both imaginative and easily navigated, a
combination that you don't often find in Flash based sites.

--rick

BTW - it might be worth some debate at some other time and in some other
venue as to whether or not "ridiculously overdone" is a valid definition of
"art"

Rick Alexander
Eighthday Web Design & Hosting Services
Knoxville, Tennessee
http://eighthdayweb.com

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