Tag archives for: Adobe

June 23, 2013

Old Adobe Fireworks Extensions That Never Made It To Production: Flubber & Reflection

I was trawling through some old archives the other day and stumbled across a couple of old extensions that we were working on that never made it to production to see the light of day. Flubber (Lite Edition) This was inspired by the film 'Flubber' from 1997 starring Robin Williams, and although a quirky idea, never got farther then pre-production prototypes.               Reflector (Lite Edition) An extension that made it to production, Read more [...]
May 7, 2013

Adobe Fireworks is Fired

Well, it's a sad day for Adobe Fireworks users, as Adobe have announcement no further product development of the product apart from bug fixes. While we are not planning further feature development for Fireworks, we will continue to sell Fireworks CS6 as well as make it available as part of the Creative Cloud. We will provide security updates as necessary and may provide bug fixes. We plan to update Fireworks to support the next major releases of both Mac OS X and Windows. As more specific details Read more [...]
May 27, 2004

Fireworks Essential Tips: Part 1

When creating interfaces elements that will eventually end up on show for public consumption consider each individual element within the design and ask yourself the following questions. Does the element play a functional part in the interface? Will the element work in the medium it is intended? If the element is an animation, video or auditory narrative, does it add to the overall aesthetics of the design? If you answered ‘No' to any of these three questions, revisit the element, and either improve it or ditch it, then ask yourself the same questions again. Read more [...]