Enhance the User Experience
Flash enables us to expand from the traditional computer interface design patterns and create engaging and original interactive experiences that are more suited to the specific needs of the content.
Flash games, applications and interfaces by admataz
Team Architects' website navigation and portfolio gallery
www.teamarchitects.co.za
Flash adds sophistication to this firm's showcase portoflio. The content is stored in XML files and external images, which allows for easy updates. I created this in collaboration with the superb design skills at sploosh.
The Shoji Company product showcase
www.shoji.co.za
I developed the Flash interface with the visionary design of our friends at sploosh. The Shoji Company produces Japanese blinds and room dividers that "enhance the sense of spaciousness and light in a room". Their product showcase uses Flash to portray this sense of calm and order, as well as emulate the smooth sliding action of the product.
Rick Alexander's fab photo zoom tool
www.rickalexander.net/gallery.php
The central focus of this site is the Photo Gallery, which uses Flash to allow the user to zoom in and pan the photographic works to examine the finer detail. The gallery content is controlled by a CMS that allows Rick Alexander to upload his images and add comments.
Classic pacman
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Pacman is the classic arcade game. I developed this version from scratch to illustrate some of the advanced capabilities of Flash as a game development platform.
Chalk Design portfolio site
www.chalk.co.za
I helped create an online portfolio with careful online interpretation of the brand by sploosh that uses Flash to highlight the superior eye for detail which Chalk Design's work displays.
Spoked.net elastic interactive logo
www.spoked.net
Other than making great web designs, our collaborators sploosh also run a small clothing label. I made this fun little bouncy elastic treatment of the spoked logo in Flash (now also featured with the sploosh logo!)
Bio-Oil location map
www.bio-oil.info/where.php
This Flash map allows users to zoom in to their region to find out where Bio-Oil is available. I did the technical stuff; design and concept by sploosh.
Pierre Crocquet photo gallery
www.crocquetphotography.com/
I developed the functional aspects for this flash photo gallery for Pierre Crocquet's portfolio of professional work in collaboration with sploosh.
Mailbox Mayhem game
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This is a simple game created while I was at Maverick Interface Design to promote an M-Web custom software package that is supposed to make the management of multiple email accounts on one computer an easy task. I developed the gameplay functionality using Flash and the designer applied the graphic look and feel to fit in with the product.
Perfect Pizza
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Drag the ingredients to the pizza to make your own. Created while I was at Maverick Interface Design, this is a good example of how Flash can be used to customise products online. This was a promotion for M-Web - South Africa's largest dial-up ISP. Participants stood the chance of winning one of 10 pizza's sent out daily.
Spitalfileds Market
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Spitalfields market is a busy and diverse market near London's financial district. I created this map as part of my involvement with the Spitalfields Media Project
Flash and the User Experience?
Providing people with good experiences is central to the success of interactive products.
An effective user experience is one that the user remembers — an experience that's sufficiently engaging and enveloping that the user walks away feeling it was time well-spent. If a user has learned something new or done something that he or she might not ordinarily have been able to, then you as an experience designer have accomplished your goal. Experience is essential to building knowledge.