Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5

Today's feature: 'Part 3 - Interaction Design & Text'


David Hogue, Interactive Experience Design Expert focuses on five key principles of interaction design: Consistency, Visibility, Learn-ability, Predictability, and Feedback. In this lesson we see how these five essential principals of Interaction Design apply to the presentation and the delivery of text, and understand how people tend to view and consume text on a digital device. Afterwards, we follow a quick exercise in Adobe Flash Catalyst to take a look at an example of creating a liquid layout.

Today's feature: 'Part 2 - Interaction Design & Navigation'

David Hogue, Interactive Experience Design Expert reminds us of the five key principles of interaction design (featured in 'Part 1 - Five Essential Principles of Interaction Design'): Consistency, Visibility, Learn-ability, Predictability, and Feedback. With an understanding of these five principals of Interaction Design, we'll now learn how to apply those concepts to craft effective navigational systems for digital interfaces. Near the end of this presentation, we can follow along with the quick tutorial in Adobe Flash Catalyst to see some ways drop-down navigation bar elements can be presented.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5

Today's feature: 'Part 1 - Five Essential Principles of Interaction'

David Hogue, Interactive Experience Design Expert, highlights five key principles of interaction design: Consistency, Visibility, Learn-ability, Predictability and Feedback. Specifically, Hogue clarifies what interaction design is and how these five essential principals of interaction design could help you make better interaction design decisions. This quick introduction will help you get started thinking about how to design your interfaces in the most effective way with the behavior of the user in mind.

Today's feature: 'Video and HTML5 - Part 4: Flash with HTML5 Fallback - Choosing a Path'

Stephanie Sullivan Rewis wraps up her four-part series on HTML5, showing an alternate method to serve video on the web and how to decide which method to employ for your clients. Rewis covers ways to integrate native video, including using the video tag and when to use Flash video versus when to use native video.

These tips are great to know for implementing Flash for video! You can get Adobe Flash Professional CS5, today!

Today's feature: 'Advanced PDF Slideshow Enhancements to Photoshop Exported Documents'

Discover some advanced techniques for enhancing your PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat Pro X. Then, learn some techniques for exporting these documents to an Apple iPad via 'The Russell Brown Show'. In order to do/follow this tutorial, you'll need to have an up-to-date version of Acrobat X Pro. Enjoy!