>> I really hope someday Flash &Flex can work better together.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2pgnNSpi_M&feature=related>
>>There are just so many ways that the Flash stage makes more sense to a
>>designer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2pgnNSpi_M&feature=related
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
GT&O L&LD Solutions Design & Development
eTools & Multimedia
Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community
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All very good information, thanks again Alex. I can't tell you
how
much I appreciate your responses to my posts.
I guess all I'm bitching about is that I really hope someday
Flash &
Flex can work better together.
There are just so many ways that the Flash stage makes more
sense to a
designer. As an example, Every designer I've worked with always
has
small "tweaks" after the functionality is added and in most
cases, the
designers I've worked with, would prefer to make those changes
themselves, or at least have the option to. Give the designer a
copy
of Flex and having them manipulate CSS or MXML markup just feels
wrong
to most designers. These are visual people and flash excelled at
giving these people tools they could understand and work with.
Designers use Photoshop which has similar tools to Flash, again
why
these people probably felt comfortable trying out flash. It just
made
sense.
I love flex as a programming environment but the workflow has
been
drastically changed since Flex 2 arrived on the scene, coming
from the
flash world, and to expect designers to be coders and coders to
be
designers is unrealistic from my perspective. Where you could
once
have two people work on a small project, you now almost need a
third
person to go back and forth between the designer and coder for
every
visual change to an application. It used to be common place for
designers to know a bit of flash but beyond converting the
initial
proofs there really doesn't seem like there is much usefulness
having
a designer do anything else.
Maybe I'm looking at this wrong, but I'd love to hear a better
way to
overcome the traditional workflow changes since Flex 2.
Best regards.
Justin Winter
useflexmore.com
