personal research project

My second artefact was a Flash mini site. I wanted to look into increased user control online. Flash can create web pages where the user has complete control over content, layout etc...

i wanted to see how people interacted with my mini site which had a lot of user control in the sense that the navigation bar could be moved, all content could be hidden or moved around.

The info i got back from people was not what i expected! people actually said that the pages could get cluttered, messy and confusing because users could put things where they wanted!

Also, from a technical point of view, this type of design constitutes to serious accessibility and usability issues. It also brakes fundamental web standards!

So all in all, i found that Flash can be over used and used where it is not needed! This experiment was a case of Flash over use!