IA, Flash & HTML, was Re: [Sigia-l] knowledge management

[Brian Ghidinelli]

Ziya wrote:
> If you have to 'learn' Flash with the start of your project, it might take
> longer. :-) If you have to learn JavaScript or DOM (or platform

Heh, fair enough. :)  To make an apples to apples comparison, I would 
suggest we compare two teams, each of which are proficient at their 
respective skills.

> Given a project of any significant size and proficient coder(s), usually the
> actual technical production stage is not what takes the longest amount of
> time. Requirements gathering, approvals, prototype or even testing itself
> might take longer. 

More on topic, I believe this is a big opportunity for IAs.  Because of 
the possibilities that Flash enables, the interaction design and 
information architecture can be an order of magnitude more complicated.

We're building a small marketing piece right now for Rich Internet 
Applications and even mocking up some _very_ simple screens to 
illustrate some advantages for retail commerce sites requires an 
enormous amount of consideration and thought.  Flexibility increases 
complexity -- although I would argue in a good way in the case of RIAs.


Brian

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