December 09, 2005

Adobe's Motion Design Center lacks "Experience Matters"

I thought I'd finally pop on over to the Motion Design Center on Adobe's site and check out the tutes they have but none of them will open for me. It doesn't matter what browser I use, the "Launch Video Tutorial" button does absolutely nothing. And it's not like I'm using linux or some odd OS, it's just plain old WinXP Pro. In fact, the window itself doesn't even show properly for me, with the video preview window and the button half hidden behind the scrollbar on the right. bleh..

I certainly hope that the folks at MM step up into their place of command and teach Adobe a thing or two on how to make a site work with all browsers and systems and make them understand that "Experience Matters". It looks great, I give them that, but functionality rates somewhere around 3 out of 10 for me (at least I could navigate to the page).

Posted by Graeme at December 9, 2005 09:22 AM
 



Comments

Agreed! I've always had problems with their site, all kinds of weird problems like that. I could never understand how a big company like that could have such a poorly performing site.

Posted by: Rob Cameron at December 9, 2005 09:39 AM

Thanks for the feedback, Graeme. Everything worked fine for me but I will pass on the feedback to the team.

MD

Posted by: Mike Downey at December 9, 2005 10:46 AM

get rid of the top drop menus for one...
I have often had problems with their site in the past as well,
mostly with their exchange. SLOW loading for an html based app....

Posted by: wp at December 9, 2005 12:43 PM

Works fine for me - WinXP Home SP2 and Firefox 1.5.

Posted by: Peter Tilbrook at December 9, 2005 04:52 PM

I also had lot of trouble with that site, need IE to display the slide and works only with Flash 8 and they didnt even use the detection kit ;)
At least they try to give some content...

Btw, thanks for the link to the Flash Media Server presentation, it's great!

Cheers, Ahmet.

Posted by: Metah at December 13, 2005 06:11 AM