Category Archives: Our picks


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What kind of a designer I would like to work with? (Attempt for a formulation, but also a question)


To me design is some sort of clarity of vision. Clarity to the extreme. Down to the last detail. Not to be confused with cleanliness. The design process is messy. Often chaotic and surrounded by uncertainty. But nevertheless the presence of a clear vision is a sign of maturity. And it’s [...] More

Application Frameworks – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly


The most systematic analysis of the most popular Flex architectural frameworks. More

What’s wrong with the creative community of Flash?


The Flash community is very diverse – it is a mixture of designers (UI/UX/IA), solid software engineers, artists, technology enthusiasts and a great number of individuals applying multi-discipline skills on various levels of fluency. It’s been a vibrant, extremely creative community that drove most of the innovation of the UI/UX for the web. For the [...] More

IntelliJ Idea9 ActionScript 3/Flex Workflow Part 1 – InsideRIA


Switching to IntelliJ Idea9 for Flex and Flash development looks quite attractive More

Flex 3 Animated Scrolling (a.k.a. Smooth Scroll)


Almost year and a half ago I’ve wrote an article about making a pretty custom scroll-bar with a Fixed Sized Scroll-Thumb – a task known in the community as a designer scroll-bar. Both blog posts proved to be useful, but just recently I received an email from this very cool guy Dino from Canada with [...] More

Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Part 1) | Software Artist


Tutorial that covers exactly the environment I would like to see how is used. More