From a designer's point of view...

This hasn't seemed to be talked about much so I thought I would
see if I could get some dialogue generated on the subject.
When it comes to my graphic designers in the Flex workflow:
1. should I keep them in the Flash environment or move them to
the Flex environment?
2. where is the delineation between Flex & Flash (from a
design standpoint)?
3. to what level should things be designed/developed in Flash
vs. Flex?
a. does it make any sense to have my Flash designers doing
anything with the Flash drawing API (or other programmatic design
elements) or is there a Flex equivalent?
4. if I make the assumption to have Flash be used as a designer
for "interactive" elements and Flex for UI and other elements am I
on the right track?

Hi there -
There aren't really any cut and dry answers, but there have
been some posts
and blogs in the past that offer some opinions and can help
get you thinking
about the topic in more detail. Folks like Jesse Warden and
Mike Chambers
have talked about the division of labor between Flash and
Flex and the
designer/developer workflow that can add more color to this
topic. Some of
these postings apply to Flex 1.5, but I don't see too much of
a difference
with Flex 2.
Jesse Wardens' thoughts from over a year ago which might give
some guidance:
http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2005/01/why_flash_devel.html
Mike Chambers wrote something when we released the alpha of
Flex 2 that
provides some ideas:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flex2_flash.html
And one posting that came up just this week:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flex_builder_flash.html
Best,
Deepa Subramaniam
Flex SDK Developer
"sswenson" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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>
<blockquote>quote: <hr>Originally
posted by:
>
ElectricGrandpa
> Yes, but the question was about Flash *Designers*, not
developers. I'm
> also
> interested in this topic.
>
> ElectricGrandpa has it correct. In particular I am
trying to decide how
> much
> workload should be kept in Flash and what is more
reasonable to have
> developed/designed in Flex. In deciding to use Flex it
is crucial to know
> how I
> need to re-organize my team so as to best use them and
their skills, where
> to
> apply additional training and where I may have gaps that
I need to fill.
>
> Should "look and feel" elements of my RIAs be designed
and developed in
> Flex
> or Flash? Should interactive content be kept in the
Flash realm and added
> programmatically to my RIAs? If so, where is a logical
line to draw
> between
> what Flash does best and where Flex can take over?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

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