Category: Flex

  • Almost Famo.us

    Famo.us is a very promising looking approach to gaining the Flash-like richness that once required a plugin. Is it as good as it looks?

  • Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war?

    I ended up being quoted a few times in this recent article about modern web app technologies. I’ll provide a bit more context here. …Microsoft sees things differently, believing that programmers are best off ditching HTML and JavaScript as soon as Web applications start getting rich. "It’s amazing what people have done with HTML, which…

  • Fast Times at RIA High

    What a time this is shaping up to be… We have some exciting stuff cooking here that I can’t quite talk about yet but you’ll be seeing soon enough. Scott Guthrie recently posted about a few of the things we’re doing to continue WPF’s place as the best platform for creating the best desktop experiences…

  • Flex Style Explorer

    Our man Peter has just posted an article about the Flex Style Explorer on Macromedia DevNet. Even better, the explorer is there to explore/download so check it out and start exploring. Note that you don’t actually need Flex to play with this. Peter’s a fellow user experience consultant for Macromedia Consulting, and is operating out…

  • Wireframing with Flex pt.2

    What: I updated the stylesheet that turns any mxml app into a wireframe. V2.0 catches a lot of styling exceptions that snuck by with the first version of this wireframing stylesheet. It also adds wirebox and wire header styles you can add to make sure all the necessary wireframes show up. Why: This stylesheet allows…

  • MAX 2004 Presentation

    MAX 2004 Presentation

    November 8th, 2004I spoke at MAX 2004 with John Bennett of Macromedia Consulting. The presentation is entitled “Creating Rich User Experiences with the Flex Experience Model” (say that five times fast). The presentation went fairly well–no one threw rotten fruit or pointy objects so we can consider that a success. We also ended up with…

  • Wireframing with Flex

    Here’s a stylesheet that makes a Flex app look like a wireframe and yet remain fully functional. This allows you to prototype using Flex instead of Illustrator or Visio.