Wow... sounds like a pretty powerful tool. Now if only the windows beta were available. Then I could see where this would fit in with our design and development process. I love the roundtrip capability, but unfortunately I happen to be stuck in a .NET shop. :(
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Gabor Vida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just picked up a copy while I was at Adobe MAX. > > Fantastic program so far, but definitely an alpha. > > The big surprise for me is that Catalyst is actually a very powerful > wireframing tool. I could see it replacing Omnigraffle for me. > > I attended a session that discussed using Catalyst for wireframing > and it's amazing how easy it is to create an interactive wireframe > and deploy it as a swf for user testing and client validation. > > You can then take the Catalyst file and give it the dev team and they > then import it into Flex Builder as a project and can start building > the business logic right away. > > The entire work flow is round-trip in that I can make changes to a > wireframe and give those changes to the dev team and have them update > the working files to reflect the changes very easily. > > Design is then a process of essentially skinning the wireframe, which > then again feeds into the dev team and eliminates a lot of tedious > work by developers implementing a design. > > The feature set is limited, but you can create custom components for > it to add as much functionality as you'd like. The interaction is a > bit clunky and there are a few things clearly missing - most of which > the Adobe team is aware of and is working on. > > Our shop does 90% of our work in Flex, so for us this could > potentially be a game changer. > > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35670 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- "Art provokes thinking, design solves problems" w: http://www.davidshaw.info ________________________________________________________________ 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
