Design, Flex, RIA

Last week I got some Illustrator files from the designer on our team, which I had to convert into Flex 4 skins. When we had planned this, we thought this would be easy … the designer makes the skins in Illustrator, we export FXG directly from Illustrator or we import them into Catalyst, do some tweaking and then export to get FXG that we can use in SparkSkins .. unfortunately it wasn’t that simple, I’m documenting some of the gotchas and workarounds I learned for anyone else who may run into the same situation.

Most of the problems we had were related to gradients, here are some snapshots …

1. The first strip is original graphic created in Illustrator
2. The second strip FXG Exported from Illustrator
3. The third strip is original Illustrator file imported into Catalyst and then FXG exported from Catalyst

Clearly, all of them are different. read more

Design

Saurabh twittered a link to a somewhat old post by Kimmy Paluch .. as I read through the post I was very impressed with the visual she uses to explain the various facets that make up User Experience Design ..