Category Archives: Design

Capital Flash Camp 2010 : A brief recap

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Fuad Kamal

I attended Flash Camp in DC today and though I would share my initial impressions, given that we were at 360 Flex not too long ago and a lot of attention is being given to the upcoming Flash & the … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Design, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, Flex 3 -> Flex 4 Migration, Flex 4, Illustrator, Photoshop, RIA, Software Architecture, UXD, Wireframing | 3 Comments

takeaway from MAX: iPhone & Mobile development from Flex and Flash

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Fuad Kamal

There were lots of news and sneaks at the Adobe MAX conference this week, and fortunately a lot of it is available in a couple places: a) Adobe MAX Online Site b) most of the sessions are now available on … Continue reading →

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review: Balsamiq Mockups

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Fuad Kamal

It took me, as a ‘first time ever’ user of Balsamiq, about two hours to complete a wireframe I had sketched up on paper in a few minutes. That’s a plus – I doubt anyone besides myself can read the wireframe I sketched by hand, much less make heads or tails of it, while the one I made with Balsamiq is quite legible, while still lo-res such that it should impress upon the client that this is indeed a mockup not meant to communicate any sense of the look & feel of the application. My other thoughts for this particular wireframe were to do it either in FIreworks or in Flash Catalyst. Continue reading →

Posted in Adobe, AIR, Balsamiq Mockups, Design, Flash Catalyst, RIA, Thermo, UXD, Wireframing | 1 Comment

iPlotz: wireframing, mockups, and prototyping for web sites and applications

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Fuad Kamal

A colleague recently sent me a link for a wireframing web application called iPlotz. It appears to be a flex application in beta, and if I’m not mistaken perhaps using a variation of the Edding Black or Flekscribble themes featured … Continue reading →

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Anaara.com just went LIVE

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Fuad Kamal

Well this has been a month of new things being implemented; Barack Hussein Obama won the presidential election, Adobe MAX SF is around the corner, and our web site is finally live! For ages now we have only had our … Continue reading →

Posted in ActionScript, Adobe, Adobe MAX, After Effects, AIR, Aperture, Apple, AS2 -> AS3 migration, Away3D, Brio, Design, Final Cut Pro, Flash, Flex, Illustrator, InDesign, iPhone, LightRoom, Martial Arts, mobile | Comments Off

Mercedes Benz USA Flex 3 Site Launched

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Fuad Kamal

It’s an ecstatic day for us here at Anaara Media as mbusa.com went live this morning. It has been a tremendous effort for our team, the in-house team at Mercedes in New Jersey, and also Yakov Fain and Valerie Silaev … Continue reading →

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Breaking out of the ‘page-centric’ web

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Arun Saraswat

I was recently forwarded a link to a “New Fandangled” Flex Web E-commerce site. After spending a few minutes of precious project time going through the site, one thought kept going through my head… ‘why did they develop this in … Continue reading →

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A Letter to Colleen – Flash & Hi-8 live/animated film

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Fuad Kamal

Check out this article from Studio Daily about a film shot in Hi-8 and then rotoscoped in Flash frame by frame to create a disturbing graphic novelesque film by London Squared Productions. They used Final Cut Pro for editing the … Continue reading →

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Page Shuffle in Adobe InDesign

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Fuad Kamal

Thanks to Jeff Witchel & Layers Magazine for this tip.  In my InDesign projects I had always been annoyed by not knowing how to insert pages without screwing up my entire layout, especially where I had very large graphic elements … Continue reading →

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