[Sigia-l] Flash Calculators and Usability

[Skot Nelson]

On Mar-17-2006, at 1:27 PM, cheryl kimble wrote:

> i'm working with a design team who wants to build a financial  
> calculator in flash. there are lots of benefits but i'm concerned  
> about usability issues, particularly with slider bars.

slider bars? is this a general comment on them as an interface  
device, or specific to how flash embeds in a browser.

I think financial calculators -- which by their nature try to present  
a simple, but rich, view of complex issues -- are a great market for  
this sort of thing. Beats creating CDs.

The Alpinestars web site used to have just about the most heinous  
flash content I'd ever seen, with content that went off my Powerbook  
screen causing you to use both browser sliders & navigation built  
into the Flash app to move content around the screen. It seems to  
have been fixed, but if this sort of behaviour is what you're  
referring too then yes...I'd avoid it