Flex user group presentation - Skinning Flex 2
comments closed posted on 14 January 2008
Back in October last year I presented at the Midlands Flex user group. While working on a financial planning Flex 2 application I learned heaps about creating a fully customized UI using the CS3 suite and Flex.
The presentation is not to technical in its delivery. The audience we have at the user group can cover designer, manager developer and complete newbie so the presentation had to reflect this. The main aim was to show that Flex did not have to look like Flex. You can achieve very interesting results by investing some time in planning, designing and developing the user experience of your application.
Many Flex applications forget to restyle the pre-loader. While not being the easiest component to style or add extra behavior to it sure can give your application that polished look. There are a number of ways in which you can prepare your assets for use within a Flex application. PNG from Fireworks or Photoshop to SWF from Flash or Illustrator.
This presentation was targeted around Flex 2. Flex 3 has dramatically changed the way you work with skinning assets from programs like Adobe Illustrator or Flash, and I will cover this in future posts.
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If you have any questions regarding this presentation please contact me and I will be happy to help. It is released under Creative Commons share alike 3.0 so please distribute it around.
On another note I have only just discovered SlideShare and so far have found lots of useful presentations from conferences like Future of Web Apps, Future of Web Design and Flash in The Can that I have been unable to attend.
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