1583 readersI recently read Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton and it's become one of my favorite books explaining the value of design to non-designers. Buxton wrote the book specifically with business audiences in mind and does an excellent job describing both the value and method of design. This is no easy task, as
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1917 readersFlash books, technical books, flash resources Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe Systems (Classroom in a Book) is an excellent read to gert started with flash. Learn how to design Flash projects with sophisticated animation, import video and sound files, integrate buttons and add interactivity using ActionScript 3.0. learn features such …
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2113 readersIn Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they can do besides bicker over formats. Web Standards for E-books by Joe Clark E-books aren’t going to replace books. E-books
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1651 readershis post is the first in a series where I hope to discuss all of the key relationships between classes in Design Patterns. To help identify posts in this series I’ve created a general diagram with all of the different kinds of relationships between classes. I did not include the boxes for pseudo-code or divide
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3255 readersAdobe and Print/HOW Design magazines went to some of our favorite designers with this challenge: can you take work that you originally designed for print, and, using Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, take the concepts to the web as expressive, fully interactive projects? Three designers/design agencies stepped to up the task: Design Army from Washington, DC, Triboro
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3626 readersI used to be a Windows, Flash Builder, Eclipse user but I have since migrated to Ubuntu 11.04 and IntelliJIDEA. I would have migrated earlier than I eventually did but one of the things holding me back was the lack (…)Read the rest of this entry ...
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4575 readersOften books are used as a measure of success for a technology platform. For instance, O'Reilly used to publish a bi-yearly report on the state of the technology book market. (They may still, though I can't find one more recent than last year.) And since today I received an email letting me know that a
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4882 readersI’ve had a number of users contacting me regarding ways to learn Adobe Flash Professional. There are a lot of great resources available for users interested in animation, design, and development in Flash. Whether you’re an advanced user, or totally new to Flash, there are tons of resources available. Over the years, I’ve read dozens
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5434 readersFrom today onwards, our focus is changing. Instead of covering everything to do with Flash, Unity and Silverlight, we’ll be covering the design and development of browser-based apps and games in general. This means no more tutorials on full-Flash websites or AIR, and lots of new content on game design, UI, and HTML5. Read on
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21846 readersAt my job as a Creative Technology Manager at Pearson, I do a significant amount work on interactive training with our Instructional Design team. Over the last 7 years, we’ve developed a highly-reusable, modular set of Flash templates that can handle all sorts of advanced interaction. As rapidly as the team can generate a course