The death of mobile flash may have even more consequences than we initially imagined
Flash for mobile devices died a couple of days ago, and apparently there wasn’t a web-wide mourning vigil cast. Nobody cared. Most of the video sites are adding a HTML5 player now, so soon flash video will be gone too. Even Adobe has put out their own HTML5 authoring tools, leaving flash for desktop animation, presentations and e-learning. And for a while we would’ve thought it’s gonna stay that way. I mean Flash is definitely fantastic for making animated movies and clips. It’s also pretty good for presentations and e-learning solutions. But that last part might change soon too.
Most companies (including big corporations) that use e-learning solutions don’t really care what technology they’re using, as long as it works. And that worked out pretty well for e-learning delivery companies, because on most laptops and desktops Flash does work well. But there’s a slight change now, that apparently many of those content creation companies didn’t notice.
We have covered minimal design before, and every time we did the idea was to have black text on white background. Well, that minimalist approach was of course oversimplified, but a couple readers asked me about that, so here we go:
The web sure has gone a long way from it’s humble beginnings of blue, underlined links, serif fonts, animated GIFs (they now exist as something completely different) and patterned backgrounds. Well now we are seeing a rapid increase of so-called ‘minimal design’. The idea is to have a simple, once color background (preferably white). Gradients and textures are generally frowned upon. The site’s palette should consist of only a couple colours, and using more than two (or three) fonts is prohibited. 
