I've just put my slides up from my Memo to the CEO session at Flash on the Beach. Download them here (PDF, 3MB).
The FOTB slides: Memo to the CEO article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
I thought about exporting QuickTime and Flash versions of the presentation too but, frankly, I couldn't justify it. The QuickTime version has all the bells and whistles of the transitions but it staggeringly large. The Flash version, well, let's just say I'm sure that Apple didn't cripple the Flash export on purpose but in terms of size (it's large) and performance (it doesn't have all the effects), it really doesn't make much sense. Again, I'm sure it's not a case of Apple favoring QuickTime over Flash! At the end of the day, the PDF version seems to be the best bet. It contains the information and is small. There you go, you just read a whole paragraph on why you've got my session slides in PDF format. Truly, could there have been a better way for you to spend the last thirty seconds. Thirty one. Thirty two! :P
While searching around for a picture to include in this post, I also found some reviews of my session. Here are some links:
- The Lion's Den by my good friend Andy Budd.
- What all clients should know at Web X.Y.
- The Unbearable Lightness of Coding at Zen Bullets.
- Back from Flash on the Beach at ValveBlog.
- Flash by Larry Mahony.
- FotB Day 1 by Andrew Lloyd.
- Flash on the Beach Day 1 by Marco Casario.
The FOTB slides: Memo to the CEO article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
[...] I was recently talking about how important it is to carry out user testing during product development at my Memo to the CEO talk at Flash on the Beach. This is a perfect example of a problem that would have been discovered earlier had Nintendo carried out contextual user testing with its European and American users (I’m not sure how big a problem the wrist strap issue is in Japan). Contextual, meaning in their living rooms (ironically, this is exact scenario is depicted in the North American Nintendo ads: “Wii would like to play!”). So basically, what I’m saying is that Nintendo didn’t play with their Wii enough. (Oh, no, it’s doesn’t get old does it?) [...]
Thanks!(Thirty three!)
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