Design Challenges

KISS Still king

I been developing a dynamic flash menu purely in actionscript. I got the whole thing done in one day, with the exception of how to keep the roll out part of the menu showing up. I thought really hard about this and it wasn't until now that I been away from it for a few hours that it hit me.

The answer was there all along, why hide the menu until the user rolls over another menu again? See I was looking at it the other way, hide the menu then show the menu. When I should have look at it as, hide all the menus if the user mouses over a different button than the one that was showing.

If you stumble onto a problem, the best thing to do is to walk away from it for a couple of hours. Let the problem sink in, but stop thinking about solutions, when you least expect it, something will trigger the answer for you.

Keep Simple, really simple.