Posts Tagged ‘Fireworks’
Wow what a great day! Adobe announced that the HTC Hero supports Flash Player 10!
I’m excited about this finally coming to reality. The Android platform is really amazing and un-fortunately the timing is off to use Adobe Flash for implementation since I’m planning to submit the game to the developer challenge. Maybe next time!
When I left adobe a month or so ago to pursue my own intersests I really had just a couple ideas I wanted to run with, but now I’ve added a video game to my list of projects. I’m not at all concerned about the iphone and I may decide one day to port the game over to the iphone, but my interests and inspirations and motivation are aimed directly at the Android platform, I love the community and the users there vs iphone community. Hopefully going forward, I’ll use Flash over Java, but we’ll see so far I’m having a lot of fun and I’m even looking for a little help if you are in SF, hit me up! 
Also, Google used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to design the templates for Android which totally blows. I can’t tell ya how much of a pain in the ass it is to have multiple applications open just to design your application for Android! I could go on and on and why this could have easily been done in Adobe Fireworks, but hey thats me, hehe. It’s a good thing while working on the Fireworks team we made the decision to support current photoshop and illustrator documents. I’ll try and slow down and take what I have so far and make a generic template for Fireworks users soon and if interest arrises more than I expected I’ll work on it sooner than later.
Adobe Fireworks is a fantastic tool to create visually rich, eye popping user interface designs for all facets of the web industry and even extends into the product/manufacturing industry. Over the years I’ve worked on Fireworks I’ve had the honor to see how customers use Fireworks and lemme tell ya, it’s amazing to see what others do with it. From web interfaces to iphone to kiosk interfaces and devices to car audio players to LCD menu interfaces, Fireworks fits the bill for developers and designers that need to quickly bust out a visual mockup or need to create a click-thru prototype.
What is Fireworks ultimate secret to making Fireworks users successful? It’s easy to use!! To this day I am a strong believer in Fireworks saving you time and money on projects all around. Go read this article I wrote for the edge newsletter as a “Fireworks customer”. At the end of the article I listed “Easy to use” as one of my favorite features.
Quoting myself below:
“Another neat thing about Fireworks MX 2004 is that I can teach it to anyone in less than a few minutes — which means you can probably learn it on your own pretty quickly.
In my experience, once a back-end developer understands the workflow, they never go back to other products. After I show them how to use such an intuitive graphics program, I get nothing but compliments — and they get more money in their pockets, since they no longer have to rely on a graphics wizard to generate time-consuming, repetitive images.
I guess it’s obvious… I’m a true Fireworks believer. I’ve thought about growing out my hair again and walking the earth with my trusty wooden cane just to teach those cave-dwelling developers how simple Fireworks 2004 MX is to use for their projects. Sure, finding them could be hard, but the process would fun.”
There is more truth to this ancient article than you can see….I did grow my hair out again and I have been teaching cave dwelling developers the time saving features in Adobe Fireworks! My passion for Adobe Fireworks is immense and keeps getting stronger when I hear success stories from customers. Keep it real folks and get outside this weekend!
Finally, you can get your Fireworks tee and represent Adobe Fireworks locally. Show them what you are all about. 
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