[rchaud]

The Flash interface is primarily visual. It looks more like a video editing app, with timelines and layers.

- Click button X, run Timeline 1. - Click Button Y, run Timeline 2. - Click X again, run Timeline 1 in reverse.

That made it far more intuitive for designers, who can prototype interaction design ideas themselves, instead of leaving it entirely to developers to implement.

The death of Flash led to the death of the creative web, because anything outside of the bounds of CMS templated content required developers to do everything from CSS, JS triggers and deployment. Even today, that workflow persists, but is worse, because creative works can't be bundled into a single executable file like what was possible w/ Flash . Designers now create something in After Effects, which then has to be compiled into code via Lottie, and implemented by a developer.