Cool Web Site

Guess I'm just old-fashioned then, as I thought that was a poorly designed website.
MINO, I like your site MUCH better.
This flashy FLASH stuff is just eyecandy that I believe doesn't help a site all too much. It's a cool fad at best.
Remember all the sites that had (and still have) FLASH intros? It was GREAT for website designers who could easily sell it to the client, as it looked cool when they presented it to them. Unfortunately it's not very effective. How many actually watch a FLASH intro on a site? "Where's the frigging SKIP INTRO button?" ;-)

Personally I like sites that can be viewed with OffByOne http://offbyone.com.
But then again, I'm just old-fashioned like that!

;-)
 
Have to disagree on that one. MOST flash sites are horribly designed eye candy pieces. This site has been around awhile, and takes flash to a different level/approach. It's not used "just to use it" as most sites do. It creates an entire user experience and environment that's pretty uncommon on the web. There's a huge gap between common flash design and this. This is well done.
 
Hey, that's cool kai. I thought I'd be in the minority on this one anyway.
I quickly checked it out again, just to make sure I didn't miss anything, and to look at it with hopefully a new perspective, taking into account what you wrote in your message.....nope, still doesn't do it for me. ;-)

Like I said earlier, it's just me, I realize that. And I do see the great production value, as I also did in what http://derbauer.de did and still does. I admire their ability in graphic design and all that, but for me, I simply don't like the usability of the sites.

All cool.
 
That site reminds me of lots of interactive CD-ROMs of the mid-90's that were designed with Macromedia Director.
 
Yeah, I think it is pretty amazing. Flash is finally coming into it's own, as a progressive communication transport.
I am excited to see what the new Flash compression does for video.

Bye the way Kai, your work rocks....
 
I love flash and would and have designed my entire site using it. But then I learned the awful truth...Build it and they won'y come!...So now I'm sitting back, learning Dreamweaver and cursing those snotty nosed little web crawlers for ignoring my efforts! There is clearly a way to mix the two (Flash and HTML) I just love the ease of flash design, for me it's effortless. Not to say I'm any good at it but I can allways get the look I want without too much work and one size fits all screens. I now find myself designing using Flash and scattering a little HTML around like seed for the chicken web crawlers. I do like the interactive, intuitive part of the wesite in question though and would love to see more thughtful desin on the web.
 
Flash really comes into its own when used for Rich Media experience that aids the user. Example, someone visits an online store to buy a digital camera and gets a list of 200 different cameras. Egads, how to choose. So they move a slider that sets a price limit and voila, all cameras which are above that price limit dissappear. Maybe another slider controls minimum number of megapixels they will accept, and voila, the ones below their minimum acceptable dissappear leaving just a few.

Through rich media interface, a complex choice becomes a much simpler choice. All live and interactive.

Its not the tool, its how you use it that matters. Check out "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug on usability and design.
 
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