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Flex Interface Guide

Posted At : November 14, 2007 7:40 AM | Posted By : TJ Downes
Related Categories: ActionScript,Adobe,Flex,Flash

I have been building Flex apps for well over a year now. One of the main struggles I come across is really how to do certain things with the interface. Sure, I have a stack of documentation (online of course) which defines the properties, events, tags, etc to me, but nothing that really tells me how to put it all together. Until now!

Adobe has released the draft of their Flex Interface Guide (FIG). So far, it looks like it's just what the doc ordered.  It also looks like Rob Adams is responsible for most of the content, which is great because Rob is part of the User Interface Group at Adobe.

I think of particular interested to me will be the sections which are not yet finished:

  • Part 6: Guiding with motion (Coming soon!)
  • Part 7: Making your application fast (Coming soon!)
  • Part 8: Making your application safe (Coming soon!)
These are the areas where I am problably the weakest, so I definitely look forward to those. When I am done reading the guide I'll give a quick review.

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George's Gravatar Yes for sure. It's pity there's no interaction designer available for Flex GUI projects usually. I have to read several usability design books at night and code Flex for dead match projects, argued with team members(they know almost nothing about Flex/design) about workflows and layout now and then.
The FIG is a good guide I learned a lot. Though I felt those incomplete sections not so easy to write especially Part 6 and Part 7. Motion design is a hard part in Flex dev in my opinion because of limitations of Flex containers. And Making application fast? I don't know how. Flex is not a RAD tool for real products.
# Posted By George | 11/14/07 9:12 AM
Dan Wilson's Gravatar Wow!

This is awesome stuff TJ. Thanks for making me aware of this good content!.

DW
# Posted By Dan Wilson | 11/15/07 8:19 PM
TJ Downes's Gravatar Hi George, I agree with your assessment. Flex is not a RAD tool in most regards. Sure, you can whip out small widgets pretty fast, but advanced applications can be time consuming. I have yet to work with motion so I am definitely looking forward to that section.
# Posted By TJ Downes | 11/16/07 9:24 AM
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