I'd definitely like to capture the presentation, whether live with something like ustream, qik or etc, or post-event with video or narrated slides. Given the interest, I'll post more info closer to the event - I think there might be an Adobe Connect setup going on too.
As for "why Fireworks?", that seems to be a common question and I'm glad I asked the list in advance, since I'll have a few non-FW friends coming and preparing some info about that will do them good too. One thing I've realized is the reason for the disconnect between FW and a lot of designers, at least those that found out about it recently rather than way back when it was a Macromedia product: FW is not really a prototyping tool, that's just Adobe's (fairly recent) marketing to set it aside from the rest of their product line up. Which explains why it comes across as so hard to pick up if you're used to a dedicated tool like omnigraffle or balsamiq - those tools are made to 1) be really easy to pick up so you can start designing right away and 2) focused on very rough layouts as visual deliverables, they're not Photoshop competitors. What *is* FW good for then? I actually like it more for making the final visual polish and design, since I hate Photoshop and Illustrator so much. Both of those tools were made primarily for non-web design purposes and it shows in their overall complexity. PS will always be for photographers first, designers second, and maybe video effects artists third, and Illy is mainly for artists and drawing. Yes you *can* use it for web stuff, it's just not made solely for that, plus jumping between the two apps is a pain, whereas FW is completely focused on making web layouts and you only need one app for making both vector and raster art. So my choice of using FW for prototyping is most definitely not a statement about it being a great prototyping tool overall, just that it works great for me personally because I can go all the way from wireframes to final design within the same app. That's going to be one of the main things I was going to demo - recycling art assets from the wireframes to the final visual mockups. - - Al Abut - - interaction designer, crimefighter http://alabut.com http://twitter.com/alabut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38092 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
