I just picked up a copy while I was at Adobe MAX. Fantastic program so far, but definitely an alpha.
The big surprise for me is that Catalyst is actually a very powerful wireframing tool. I could see it replacing Omnigraffle for me. I attended a session that discussed using Catalyst for wireframing and it's amazing how easy it is to create an interactive wireframe and deploy it as a swf for user testing and client validation. You can then take the Catalyst file and give it the dev team and they then import it into Flex Builder as a project and can start building the business logic right away. The entire work flow is round-trip in that I can make changes to a wireframe and give those changes to the dev team and have them update the working files to reflect the changes very easily. Design is then a process of essentially skinning the wireframe, which then again feeds into the dev team and eliminates a lot of tedious work by developers implementing a design. The feature set is limited, but you can create custom components for it to add as much functionality as you'd like. The interaction is a bit clunky and there are a few things clearly missing - most of which the Adobe team is aware of and is working on. Our shop does 90% of our work in Flex, so for us this could potentially be a game changer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35670 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
