Oh, and the buttons look like chewing gum stuck to the wall. Well, you re not alone. Usability is all about offering people something they are looking for. That means offering it quickly, correctly, and with maximum accessibility. On a Website, accessibility depends on factors like loading times, user requirements and navigation.
Navigation breaks down into buttons, structure, and guidance.
Flash offers wonderful tools to create menus, navigation tricks, and really exotic buttons. Everybody that is starting to work with Flash will be thinking about things like an interactive phone for a menu, or a tree, a remote control, body parts, cubes, balls, subway maps, giant fruit baskets, planetary models - but remember, no matter how cute or cool or ingenious y our interface might seem to you, it doesn t work if it doesn t work. Yet, the gray, square buttons are what people know and understand, just like blue, underlined text. A solution might be to reconsider your ideas and shape them into a more recognizable menu scheme, making your menu items look a bit more like classic buttons and placing them on the top, side, or bottom of the screen. A less drastic solution might be to have people test your interface.