Right sexy website from Sony Picture Imageworks. Give it a view if you want to see an example of a job immaculately done. A few aspects to note: - The transitions between primary states of the experience. I haven’t seen transitions like this before. Unique stuff to be riffed upon. - The sequences of text animations. Notice [...

Juan over at Scale Nine is starting to experiment with Flex 4 skinning - creating a custom button and a button with transitions. It’s always exciting to see Juan’s work! I can’t wait for his further experimentation with the Flex 4 framework.

Adobe has just released Gumbo, the next version of Flex. The next Flex is developed around three primary themes: 1. Design in Mind 2. Developer Productivity 3. Framework Evolution Being a designer, and working on Thermo, the first theme is most near and dear to my heart. And of all the new improvements and additions to Gumbo, my favorites [...

This summer O’Reilly Media released their Flex 3 Cookbook. In conjunction with the book’s release, Adobe and O’Reilly are running a contest in which developers can publish their code (and experience design) recipes in return for the chance to win some great prizes. All the recipes are organized and stored publicly for use by the [...

Flash Player 10, code-named Astro, went beta today. This release comes packed with great features such as 3d effects, Pixel Bender, and advanced text layout. I’m especially excited about the advanced text layout features and look forward to them becoming even more robust by the final Astro release. Advanced text layout is great step forward [...

Bill Gates recently rolled out the MS TouchWall. Techcrunch has the most in-depth analysis. With all the myriad multi-touch products and interfaces emerging from Autodesk, Apple, MS, and others, has the time come for multi-touch Flex components?

NJ from Much Ado About Somthing just released his Snackr AIR app. What’s Snackr? It’s an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window. It’s also an innovative use [...

Apropos the last post on State Transitions: Flex 4 Enhanced State Syntax is up for review on Adobe Open Source. Here are the goals of the enhancements: 1. Reduce the complexity of the Flex view-states feature by (1) providing a new syntax that allows state-specific object and/or property changes to be specified inline, as opposed [...

Just downloaded and started playing with Phun, a 2D physics sandbox, and it is blowing me away. Check out the video below for an example of the kind of crazy stuff you can do with it. I’d like to see the Phun team implement a more intuitive user experience and also consider touch-screen. But if [...