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Research assignments12pluscoolthingswithflashapps
1. Content Planning With Users & Context In Mind
-Considering the “Authentic Question” Work On These Assignments:
Assignment 1:Venn Diagram Assignment (Planning Activity 20 minutes)
Content:
○ What types of information is
included?(graphics,text,information,photos,galleries,links,sounds,effects,data,videos
etc.)
Context:
○ How and where will the application be used?
○ What circumstances and needs will this technology address?
○ Where will users need or want the content?
Users:
○ Who will this app be targeted at?
○ Why will they use it?
○ What value does it provide them?
User Interface:
○ How will the user interface be influenced by the inclusion in the planning process of
content,context and users?
Assignment 2:Information Architecture & Click Stream Activity(30 minutes)
Design Concepts:The are the visual and aesthetic considerations for the content.
○ color schemes
○ button sizes
○ organization of pages and order of pages
○ screen resolution
○ Font & Text Styles
○ Graphics & Images
○ layouts of buttons
○ organization of content
Cool Things You Can Add To A Flash App
○ Web Links(to specific web pages or other web based content)
○ Link to email
○ Video(embedded into page on app)
○ Images/Graphics(right on the page
○ Buttons(rollover,Photoshop and Flash)
○ Sounds and sound effects(sounds added to buttons and graphics)
○ Fade Effects(can be added to objects)
○ Maps Link(will link to google maps pages)
○ Swipe effects(can swipe photos or graphics to other pages or images)
○ Pinch & Zoom(can enlarge or reduce an image or graphic)
○ Check out the code snippets in the “Flash Actions” Window for more ideas
2. There are more than listed here so just ask if you have an idea?