First of all, just moved to the neighborhood. I think you are totally on the money. Folks with the right background understand how to exploit these tools and a UI design view is indispensable. They provide a huge productivity advantage, folks not used to them just don't get it. My core background is in VisualWorks Smalltalk which has only been used for enterprise apps and in these circles its UI designer is just integral to an iterative development rad process.
Just this monday I went to a Flex meeting here in NYC. What I heard is that the Flex designer will go away in Flash Builder but what I also thought I heard is that Adobe will not open source the UI designer. If that's true I don't get it. They are going to get rid of it why not just give it away ? I hope I heard wrong and if not I hope Adobe reconsiders and open sources the UI designer to Apache. thanks for listening. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Jeremy Tellier <jeremytell...@gmail.com>wrote: > "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 > > > -- Charles A. Monteiro www.monteirosfusion.com sent from the road
