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#360Flex Notes – “Making your Flex appliations standout with a great UX” – Francisco Inchauste

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What is XD? Buzzword really. been around awhile. sum of interactions with anything (product, company, environment, application) subjective, best practices emotion/cognition not just “beauty is only skin deep” XD is much deeper than just “eye candy” UX Recession Challenges scarce resources ($) rush to market (if I am out there first, I will win) UX [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Advanced Data Visualization” – Tom Gonzalez

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Release of Axiis as open source Data Visualization Framework Caution: Alpha level code. Beta coming in a few months What? more than just a set of charting components lightweight framework used to assemble and development charting functions way to describe patterns in data Why? Client needs are normally quite specific leaving the developers feeling like [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Putting the UX in Flex” – Joe Johnston

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

What is UX? overarching experience a person has as a result of their interactions water bottle – FAIL the “what” before the “how” UX Process 1 Research 2 Persona Development 3 Wireframe Development 4 Design Framework 5 Vision Prototype Timeframe is highly dependent on other project load and budget for this specific project. Research “customers [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Yet Another Flex Mapping API, NOT!” – Mansour Raad and Antony Jayaprakash

Monday, May 18, 2009

This is not just a small API but a true GIS mapping application. It has been used for the Fargo flood and Minneapolis Bridge collapse. http://www.esri.com/flex to download the API Library – SWC Services: Tiles can be hosted by yourself, they host some, MS hosts some. Google is coming. Geocoding/Reverse Query/Identiy Routing w/ barriers and [...]

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#360Flex Notes – “Degrafa: Declarative Graphics Framework” – Juan Sanchez

Monday, May 18, 2009

About Degrafa: Open source framework that works with Flex 2/3 and eventually 4. Allows for really easy graphics to be draw via markup. Licensed under MIT and powered by the Flex community Showed gear (based on gearAutoShape) with gradient blend and glow filter that is all done via mxml code. Degrafa is not just limited [...]

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