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Oh deary me. The new(ish) Marks and Spencer website has a flash intro. I so hoped these days were behind us. I don’t know what’s more disturbing, the collective frustration of the site’s users or the fact that a designer somewhere still thinks this is a desirable experience. Way back in October 2000, Jakob Nielsen’s provocative article on Flash noted that “one of the Web’s most powerful features is that it lets users control their own destiny. Users go where they want, when they want”. Even Jakob himself admits that Flash has come along way since he originally published this article, but this statement certainly still remains true. Unfortunately, it looks like someone forgot to tell M & S.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
that’s not just a flash intro, that’s an M&S flash intro…