Coming in on this thread a bit late...lots of good stuff here! David Malouf wrote:
> The Thermo stuff is definitely interesting, but thinks like a graphic > designer, not like an interactive designer. Expression in their > tutorials anyway is thinking similarly. > Basic assumption that is false that both are making is that I'm going > to make a finalized high fidelity graphic UI as a flat screen to start and > THEN add interactive elements. This goes against the very way IxD's have > been working. Just a quick note on this... Our current public Thermo demo does emphasize the graphic-design-to-production workflow, but we're also interested in the early-stage interaction design workflow. We do plan to have basic drawing tools and built-in components to let you do wireframing, and you can build custom components and try out interactions and transitions in wireframe as well. It sounds like the overall message of this thread is that the interaction design workflow is much more about early-stage experimentation, screen architecture, and prototyping, and that while visuals are somewhat important (for sketching and presentation purposes), exact visual bits aren't. Is that a fair characterization? I'd definitely be curious to hear what other kinds of interaction design needs aren't being addressed by visual-production-oriented design tools today. By the way, I'm going to be at Interaction '08 along with other Thermo folks from Adobe--if you see one of us, please stop us and have a chat! Thanks, Narciso (nj) Jaramillo Adobe Thermo team ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
