"Design View" as a concept has made development tools very successful, there is a reason why Dreamweaver was always way ahead of other WYSIWYG and that is because it had a great, responsive design view, and an uncluttered code view. I worked with the original Flex team at Macromedia, simply providing input and have used Flex since its inception. I have also organized ridiculously large teams of ui designers, ux prototypers and ui engineers, etc and I find "design" time views to be a feature of a system that simply cannot be lost.
In my experience most engineer types, usually that came from Java tooling, never feel they need a "design" view, it is not the "*experience*" level as some of us are extremely experienced and use the entirety of a toolset to our advantage. There is no real need to "remove" it, if it is there and people do not wish to use it... then don't use it. But why remove features from a product? It is so much easier to click "Design View" than to build your entire app and launch it to see how it looks. I have found that people raised from Visual Studio & even Macromedia tools seem more apt to take advantage of "design" views in their day to day routine and enjoy having the quick and easy ability to see at least a rough area of how components are fitting together. As for rapid prototyping, if Catalyst is gone (and it was never 100%) I would suggest my ux designers to use flash builder (100% design view). Balsomiq is cute for some things but not for large system prototyping. If it is simply that Adobe does not wish to provide improvements to their design functionality, throw up a "Cannot render" tag like dreamweaver does for unknown asp/jsp tags or better a properly sized "cannot render" box. At least people will be able to see relative positioning and a real "Enterprise" with design, ux, engineering, architecture, etc software departments can take advantage of the toolset as they see fit. My 2 cents Jeremy On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Erik Lundgren <e...@lndgrn.se> wrote: > > 17 feb 2012 kl. 11.48 skrev jude: > > > [1] http://www.radii8.com/ > > [1] http://www.radii8.com/demo/ - read the notes - > > Would love to see it, but browser tells me it can't find it. > > /Erik >
