Comments on: Announcing ringdesignonline.com (Flex 2)

By: Vivek

Vivek — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:14:40 +0000

Hi Rich

Awesome Work ………..

By: everythingflex

everythingflex — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:14:47 +0000

The initialization delay is due to a huge amount of data and images. If this were a 2.01 application, I would have been able to do some modules to speed initialization. The next version will address this.

Yes, this is a high school only application. The college version is a traditional ColdFusion app.

I will look into your comments about #3.

I will look into the broken image.

Good point on #5.

The email a friend does send a ring preview within the html email version. Perhaps, this should be changed to an attachment so that it is more consistent.

Thanks for your comments.

By: Fleximan

Fleximan — Sun, 27 May 2007 00:27:37 +0000

Rich,

You certainly should be proud of this app. Well done. My team and I are starting to get into flex for the first time this month.

Here are a few usability suggestions. I hope you dont mind.

1. The Initialization of this application takes a very long time. It took 17 seconds on my computer which is a 2Ghz Dell on a fast cable modem. I wonder how much you are actually doing in the startup sequence and whether or not any of the work could be done on-demand?

2. School selection: I was looking for my university but then later realized that you only had high schools listed. Maybe you could state that up front?

3. After I fill out my ring info, I clicked on the tab for my HJ representative. But then I could not go back to my Ring Preview as that tab was not active. I almost thought I lost my selections! I finally found a way back there via clicking Next on the Welcome tab. Perhaps you could make more of these top-level tab navigable during more states.

4. Choose a size under style-Crestline show a broken image.

5. Tab for future selections. I understand why these are Red with an X – you want me to “next” out of the current panel. But the hint only shows up during the “hover” as a tooltip. Whereas I was trying to click on them, the tooltip was not showing (because I click faster than a tooltip delay). You should give this message upon click as well.

Otherwise: Well Done! You should add pricing info and send-to-a-friend should include a preview image of the ring just built.

Fleximan.
Peace.

By: everythingflex

everythingflex — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:11:34 +0000

Thanks for the compliments.

Here are the stats:

Commands : 21
Events : 21
Views : 35
Custom Components : 10
VOs : 15

I do not use ViewHelpers as I simply am not a fan. I have all of my helper scripts in line within the MXML files.

By: brocej

brocej — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:11:55 +0000

I think it is awesome to see large scale application like this in real life. There is no way people can say Flex produces a bad user experience if they are faced with something like your app.

With regards to you using the Cairngorm framework, can you give some clues as to how big the app actually is? For example, how many Commands and Views does it use?

Also, I’d like your opinion on View Helpers. Do you use them to remove logic from Views or do you let the Views contain some logic?