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Adobe speaks about Flash Design

web design New York City — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:16:59 +0000

Build it once and deploy across multiple platforms and devices… this is FLASH! Developers want to be able to develop a web or mobile app one time and deploy it across many different devices. Just one of the extraordinary benefits of designing and developing in flash. Watch this video from WSJ with the Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. “…it benefits publishers and it benefits consumers…” This is a very good video and make sure to watch the commentary video below the interview and the discussions, they are very insightful.

iAd Digital Advertising’s New Design

web design New York City — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:07:13 +0000

Some videos below with Steve jobs keynote presentation, he talks about the new iPhone OS 4.0 and iAd. Apple claims that most people are not using search on the iPhone, instead using Apps to find things to do and places to go. Apple wants to deliver interaction and emotion back into advertising on Apps. Watch the videos below to see what’s happening with the iAd design from Apple. You can all decide for yourselves, but for right now it means a bit of change for content providers, designers, and developers.

I for one — have hope that creative content designers and developers could have the freedom to choose the tools that they prefer (flash design, HTML5, Xcode, Cocoa, javascript, etc) – in effort to create amazing content no matter what technology… but you’ll hear Jobs mention a bit about HTML5 in the first video… I love Apple products but not much love for this.

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Multi-Touch Capabilities

web design New York City — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:09:28 +0000

Some of the multi-touch and gesture capabilities of Flash Player 10.1 from Adobe and their new flash design.

Flash Design with Multi-Touch Capabilities

Flash CS5 iPhone App Built with Gestures in it’s flash design

Flash Motion Design – Flash Banner Ad – Apple Way To Go!

web design New York City — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:41:17 +0000

We have been designing quite a lot of flash digital advertisements lately, so I have been researching it a bit and I have come across quite a few innovative designs and techniques for designing with flash, page takeovers, rollover and flash video. This one by Apple simply does a great job! A classic synced leaderboard / medium rectangle with a nice flash communication to some speaking heads across the other side of the site.

Motion Design at it’s Best

web design New York City — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:55:09 +0000

Motion design whether you use and flash animation tools or Adobe After Effects or Apple Motion with a little 3D mixed in — it’s inspiring nonetheless when you see something innovative! The TV commercials below are are great example of this motion design that works and inspires all designers and animators alike. The stylization of color and good use of low-poly makes it work!

CS5 Flash doesn’t exist – But could it be true? – iPhone Apps with flash design

web design New York City — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:49:42 +0000

For the 3rd time this month I have heard someone mention CS5… and I thought, am I missing something ? I haven’t heard a thing about it from ADOBE… except some rumers that doubted that ADOBE would ever come out with a full upgrade just 18 months after CS4. SO I did a little research…

In my research I came up with another rumor, which is very interesting… Stymied in its effors to bring Flash Player to the iPhone, Adobe has come up with a workaround that one observer has called an “end-around:” the new Flash Professional CS5 allows Flash applications to be compiled as stand-alone iPhone apps.

A man named John Loiacono, head of Adobe’s Creative Solutions unit, announced at the AdobeMax conference earlier this week. said

“We are ecstatic to announce that we’re enabling you to use your Flash development tools to build applications and compile them to run natively on the iPhone.”

A lot of people thought different about it and the Apple CEO Steve Jobs disparaged Flash at last year’s Apple shareholder meeting, saying that the multimedia platform “performs too slow to be useful” on the iPhone. “There’s this missing product in the middle. It just doesn’t exist,” he told the shareholders.

The beta release for Flash Professional CS5 is said to be coming at the end of this year, so lets see if all this mess is true and will it actually be here finally.

Could it be… Flash and iPhone Apps ? or Flash in general on the iPhone? and what about Flash CS5 Design or Master Suite ?

The kind of experience you’d experience from flash and the kind of experience you’d expect from the iPhone… It’s true! And there are already some Apps in the store to prove it. check this link direct from ADOBE Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/#demo and check out the video.

So… if your still asking When will Adobe Flash Platform tooling support building applications for iPhone? A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 including support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. Sign up to be notified when the beta is available.

And… here’s the Skinny “…Flash Professional CS5 will enable developers to build applications for iPhone that are installed as native applications. Users will be able to access the apps after downloading them from Apple’s App Store and installing them on iPhone or iPod touch.” and… “Flash Player uses a just-in-time compiler and virtual machine within a browser plug-in to play back content on websites. Those technologies are not allowed on the iPhone at this time, so a Flash Player for iPhone is not being made available today.”

flash design – web design New York City post

web design New York City — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:30:11 +0000

Principles of web design apply to flash design. This is a big part of web design, however there is a set of up-to-date principles specific to flash that I wanted to outline in this post.

1. Google in June of 2008 announced that they are able to crawl inside Adobe Flash Files. However this is still not as good for SEO efforts as straight HTML. Here’s an excerpt from Google and their web design and flash design experts.

“…All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms in Google searches.

In addition to finding and indexing the textual content in Flash files, we’re also discovering URLs that appear in Flash files, and feeding them into our crawling pipeline—just like we do with URLs that appear in non-Flash webpages. For example, if your Flash application contains links to pages inside your website, Google may now be better able to discover and crawl more of your website.”

2. Since Google can not crawl and index flash files as well as HTML, we should still mix HTML into our flash and web designs.

3. Flash design can utilize SWFSddress to provide deep linking in your flash files and change the URL as your visitors maneuver through your flash site.

4. We should always use SWFObject to display the HTML content backup if the visitor does not have the flash player plugin (98% of all internet users do). This will also work very well with SEO efforts, having an HTML backup of your web design.

5. Pay attention to devices and what they are capable to display. the iPhone and iPod Touch still cannot display flash content.