Creating the elegant, high-functioning applications users demand today requires designers and developers to work together—which can be a monumental challenge, as anyone familiar with software development knows.
As creator of much of the software designers and developers rely upon to make Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Adobe Systems takes this challenge seriously. To meet it, they created Flash Catalyst, a technology platform that enables designers and developers to work together fluidly using Adobe’s most popular applications.
The question was, how could Adobe demonstrate the power of Flash Catalyst while it was still in early development?
The answer: Universal Mind. Here at UM we are keenly aware of the RIA landscape and what is coming down the pike. With this in mind Adobe turned to us to help demonstrate the power of their upcoming technologies. The result was the Universal Mart Inventory Manager.
The Universal Mart Inventory Manager lets presenters take an audience through the entire design/develop work flow. Whether it’s a five-minute press presentation or a 90-minute user group presentation, the demo covers how Flash Catalyst lets designers turn a static design into a working interactive prototype, then hand it off to a developer, who can use Flash Builder to create the back end. It includes many Adobe applications designers and developers are or will be working with, such as Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder, Cold Fusion 9, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
