Earlier in the week I presented at an AIGA meeting at the Adobe HQ.  It was a great group and a lot of fun!  I have been asked for the slides and other resouces I shared during the meeting, so I thought I’d post the link here.  Everything you ever wanted to know about going from print, to web, to mobile, to video.  Enjoy!

Balsamiq, an application mockup creation tool built on Adobe AIR, has generated more than $10,000 in revenue less than 6 weeks after the $79 tool launched. The one-man company was profitable within 3 weeks after launch and the application itself is quite remarkable.

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  So the guru Colin Moock published an interesting article about nine problems he sees with ActionScript 3.0 and Flash Player 9. Most of the charges he makes are specific to the Flash CS3 authoring environment, and the general theme is that ActionScript 3.0 and its implementation in Flash CS3 makes the development process more difficult than it should be for users without significant programming backgrounds. Colin does an excellent job of describing each charge […]

  This might be news to everyone else but Google Trends rocks! Compare any two (or more) things to see how they’re faring with the public (search numbers).  Compare Flash to Silverlight and you’ll see how all is well in the land of Adobe. http://www.google.com/trends  

I’ve been really meaning to do a post on each one of these websites I’ve created over the past couple years but paying work keeps getting in the way.  So here they are. A snapshot Yes, I made all the Flash on this site.  Great use of Flash video: http://www.tgel.com Other sites: http://www.womf.org http://www.pemko.com http://www.samsonlive.com http://www.opon.com http://www.traceylynngolf.com http://www.maxlinear.com http://www.kineticorp.com http://www.altiragroup.com http://www.fervormusic.com   

“Most people use about 35% of the capacity of any one technology,” says Michelle Weil, a psychologist and product-design consultant, “and then they stop.”  I feel like everyone to a degree feels the pressure to learn new technology. I admire the people that don’t actually.  But if you work in the technical industry, as a designer, manager, programmer, or casual blog poster, you often feel the weight of not knowing things you think you should know.  This […]

After trying my best to decypher the ActionScript 3. 0 Help in Flash CS3, I’ve decided to put together a list of my favorite sites to learn ActionScript 3.0. I like them because they provide sample files to use. Enjoy! http://www.friendsofed.com http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3 http://www.monkeyflash.com/flash/drag-and-drop-in-as3 http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/flash/articles/flacs3_migration_08.html http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/migration.html http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/ AS 3.0 Classes/Packages: http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000242.html http://handmadesign.info/?p=39

So Fireworks is often underappreciated and outshined by Photoshop’s penetration and audience.  But Fireworks has power beyond Photoshops.  More layer modes, better at optimizing, way better at web graphics and page creation.  The CS4 version has something that the Photoshop team should steal from (below).  But judge for yourself by downloading the Beta here. Live Style improvements Now when you update a style, all the elements the style has been applied to are instantly updated. […]

That’s right. The new version of the acclaimed Soundbooth.  And I have one word for you: multitrack.  Download it now, but it might only work for one day in June.  Read the notes, and download it here.