Thursday, November 26, 2009

Adobe Catalyst - Next step towards interactive prototyping

I had visited the Adobe seminar at Chennai on 24 Nov 09, where i was impressed by the turnout. Around 500 people had turned out, eventhough the start time was 8.30 am.


The main focus was on Adobe Catalyst and Adobe Flash Platform (i.e. Flex 4)


Adobe Catalyst is about creating rich interactive prototype without writing code – we can import PSD files and start creating the demo app from the layers. No coding knowledge is required and the final prototype would be as we can expect from a fully developed application with the richness of Flash. This prototype once approved can be handed over to the developers to plug in the server connectivity, data binding etc…

This is an interesting tool and has a lot of potential for RIA based prototyping. Designers would be able to showcase their design in a real time interactive fashion before actual development takes place. Dependency on a developer in such circumstances also reduces.

Adobe claims no coding knowledge is required, but i would say some knowledge would reduce the designers learning curve.

The prototype once approved can be handed over to the developers to plug in the server connectivity, data binding etc…

special thanks to Abhijit Thoshar for nominating us for this interesting event.

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