Monday, November 9, 2009

TYPE I: What is Flash and why do we, designers, use it?

What is Flash: "Flash is a vector animation software, originally designed to create animations for display on web pages. Vector graphics are ideal for the web because they are so lightweight."

Why do we use Flash: Because it is "positioned as a competitor to HTML to build interactive web sites and applications."

Reasoning:

  • Flash movies load faster and save on download time because Flash is vector based whereas HTML is not.
  • Flash intelligently ‘caches’ it’s movies so they don’t have to be reloaded.
  • Flash gives the user (the person viewing/using the Flash movie) a more responsive ‘rich-client’ like experience.
Three Different Flash Projects:

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