Adam Flater » User Experience http://www.adamflater.net Tech, UX, Design Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:00:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Simple Transitions To Improve User Experience http://www.adamflater.net/2008/01/28/simple-transitions-to-improve-user-experience/ http://www.adamflater.net/2008/01/28/simple-transitions-to-improve-user-experience/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:48:00 +0000 adamflater http://www.adamflater.net/?p=26 One of the fairly simple applications I’ve been impressed with since switching to Mac OS X about a year ago is Toast. Particularly, I like the way they use a morphing effect. A similar effect is used throughout Mac OS X.

As a simple UX exercise I decided to recreate the Google Talk install process in Flex and then apply some morphing transitions. In this example I’ve used the recently released Yahoo! Flex Skin to approximate a desktop look and feel. Thanks to the guys at Yahoo! Flash Dev for getting this out.

In this first example you’ll see a sequence dialogs very similar to the Google Talk install process.

In the second I’ve added a morph effect similar to the effect that Toast uses. In my opinion using a subtle effect like this drastically improves the user experience (UX).

Let me know what you think, drop a comment…

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