Flash User Experience Best Practices

by Robert Hoekman Jr.

Flash User Experience Best Practices offers solutions to common user experience issues that Flash designers and developers face every day. Topics shown include: making the browser Back button work with the Flash Player, handling state management, implementing effective Flash detection with useful alternate content, improving "scanability" and workflow in your applications, and helping users maintain context while working with your applications. Throughout the training videos, Robert Hoekman, Jr., shows you real-world examples and demonstrates techniques for improving the experiences you create. Exercise files accompany the training videos, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Please note that while this training title is relevant regardless of which version of Flash you are using, if you wish to follow along with the exercise files, you will need Flash 8 to open the files.

CD-ROM

First published December 22, 2005

About the author

Robert Hoekman Jr is an American writer. He is the author of nine nonfiction books, and has served as an Arts & Culture journalist, magazine editor, and manuscript developer. He has published articles in Fast Company, Wired, Maxim, and many other outlets. His microfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in 50-Word Stories, Nanoism, Spelk, Genrepunk, and elsewhere. He holds an Advanced Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Pennsylvania, and teaches creative writing through the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. He lives with his dog in Richmond, Virginia.