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    FK's Pro Snowboarder dpark's Avatar
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    What do YOU look for in flash deisgn
    I look for...
    • Good music(not annoying)
    • Fast loading
    • Awsomerific graphics
    • Cool text effects(like SWiSH does)
    • A "Skip Intro" thingy
    • Colors that don't blind me(and match)
    • And it has to be longer than 3 seconds(if its a movie)

    What does everyone else look for in Flash Design?

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    Lots of shiney objects

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    Interactivity

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    Wink being a designer takes the fun out sometimes

    i look for flaws

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    Originally posted by dpark
    What do YOU look for in flash deisgn
    I look for...
    • Good music(not annoying)
    • Fast loading
    • Awsomerific graphics
    • Cool text effects(like SWiSH does)
    • A "Skip Intro" thingy
    • Colors that don't blind me(and match)
    • And it has to be longer than 3 seconds(if its a movie)

    What does everyone else look for in Flash Design?
    and therein lies the problem, no mention at all about content ?

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    resolved

    easy nav
    crisp txt
    2 color


    div....

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    i agree with damaso with interactivity and with enkriptid looking for flaws. but for swampy on content, flash is a designing tool, possibly a light programming tool, but it is not, inherently, a content provider. i've seen alot of really nicely done flash sites that had nothing to say or present...

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    curmudgeon swampy's Avatar
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    I guess that's the difference between designers and developers.

    Deigners are happy when something is aesthetically pleaseing, developers are so anal that we want the thing to do something

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    Slickness!

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    Originally posted by swampy
    I guess that's the difference between designers and developers.

    Deigners are happy when something is aesthetically pleaseing, developers are so anal that we want the thing to do something
    not me, I want both, form and function, otherwise neilsen is right. Many of the Flash sites I see look like practice for skills that may be needed in the future when they get a real job.

    dp

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    Neilson is my hero

    seriously though, I agree that form and function are both important, which is why I pointed out that function wasn't included by dpark in his criteria.

    It depends on what the individual site is setting out to achieve and what I want to get out of it.

    I can go onto yugop or praystaion and mess around for hours and get mesmerised by it all but then I wouldn't want the same thing on Amazon ( which is downright ugly but serves it's purpose excellently).

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    maybe amazon was a bad example as it's not "flash" design, but you get the point I'm trying to make
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    [Edited by swampy on 05-13-2002 at 10:55 AM]

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    Re: being a designer takes the fun out sometimes

    Originally posted by enkriptid
    i look for flaws
    nice. me too.

    mg33

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    I look for bugs.

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    Two things I hate.
    1. Words or buttons you have to put your mouse over or click just to find out what it is. In other words: too small o'text.
    2. Buttons that you have to hover over just to find out what the button is.


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    i always BLOODY look for those overused BLOODY swish effects. i love those BLOODY things to BLOODY death

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    Wink hey you

    hey derrickito, arent you the guy that posted all those jobs in the were-here.com jobs forum???

    i would like to add .. i look for stuff that is USED TOO OFTEN, wether it be words, phrases, or especialy effects/styles, cuz you can get made fun-of doin stuff like that, and i wanna be the first to laugh.

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    Re: hey you

    Originally posted by enkriptid
    hey derrickito, arent you the guy that posted all those jobs in the were-here.com jobs forum???
    how many BLOODY people named "derrickito" do you BLOODY know eh?

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    Wink

    heh, its cuz i was gonna ask you.. you got any more job connections??? im really in need of some work! i got skill and nothing to do with it..

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    Originally posted by derrickito
    i always BLOODY look for those overused BLOODY swish effects. i love those BLOODY things to BLOODY death
    Are you BLOODY hooked on the word "BLOODY"??

    Just a question??

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    Originally posted by enkriptid
    heh, its cuz i was gonna ask you.. you got any more job connections??? im really in need of some work! i got skill and nothing to do with it..
    sorry no i dont, i post whatever i see floating around over on werehere. its pretty damn thin around.

    im holding onto my position until they throw me out

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