Archive for the ‘GUI’ Category
Hey all,
Had the great fortune to be invited to talk at the monetizing mobile event hosted by Mobile Entertainment .
Great event and really enjoyed myself. You can find a write up of my (super short) session here.
Good times!
Me and dain will be giving a presentation on wednesday for Mobile design uk.
A light hearted look over the short history of mobile UI and UX, and were it might go in the future. This short talk will specifically look at the progression of mobile UI, personalization and overall user experience over the last decade or so, and how we as mobile designers can push the boundaries to create fresh, intuitive interfaces and user experiences.
Looking forward to meeting some more of the every growing mobile community in London, and thanks to Bryan for inviting us.
Seren Partners Limited
55-57 Rivington Street, London
Wednesday April 22rd, doors open 6:30pm
I have just put a flv demo online for one of the new FL applications i have been working on.
It is in effect a mobile “channel” for a company called Stream that provide On Demand video via set-top boxes & a broadband connection in your home.
The mobile client allows you to log in and view Stream’s content on the move.
It is a completely dynamic menu system, updated via the server, which allows new content to be added on the fly.
The video is handled via Flash media server, and streamed directly to the handset.
The Demo application is connected to the internet by a o2 3G connection in this video.
view the demo here, (apologies for lack of sound)
check out stream’s online service @ streamOnline.co.uk
matt
via macworld,
the WWDC keynote has just finished, and Steve jobs has announced the iPhone 2.0 will be shipping in 22 countries (including UK) on the 11th of july.
new features include :
price:
For a blow by blow account of the Keynote at WWDC, click here
Matt
the guys from break design have released a demo of their new flashlite app, Johnie Walker | Digital PA. This looks amazing and really shows the level of branded content flashlite is capable of producing.
This is a video of streamMobile, one of the first fl proof of concept projects i did for a client. Still needs a bit of work, but thought i would post it anyway.
The app resides on the phone, then loads the content from a server.
Matt
I made a quick bitmap version to see the difference in performance. Changed the main oval to a PNG and also the reflection, which was then alpha’d to about 10%.
Came to 2 major conclusions:
Fps and performance === Much better (on the N91)
Graphical clarity === not so good…..
Because the size changes as it drops to the background, it goes all ‘pixely’. This would not be a problem if the icon did not rescale however, and the icon just moved off to the side…..
let me know how it runs if you try it on your device.
get the swf here
FL 1.1 display 176×208
matt
Fl1.1 / 176×208 display
Was messing around with this today, tried to recreate the look of the osx media player menu.
Interesting to see how the use off lots of gradients and the alpha reflections effects the fps play back on the devices.
Quickly knocked this together in FL 1.1.
feel free to have a go and if you don’t mind, let me know how the movement performs on different handsets. I tried it on a N91 and it was quite slow.
controls – left & right = nudge left & right
download the swf here
Matt.
Hi all,
Just set up a flicker gallery (–see sidebar–), and have posted some screen shots of the StreamMobile fl 2.0 application that i have currently been working on for a client. It is now in the very final stages of development, and nearly ready to be properly tested.
Matt
Hi all,
Just published a new guide to creating a basic animated menu using a the mx.transitions class.
“This is a Guide to show one a way of making a static menu system for flashlite 2.x. Instead of writing a full tutorial, i will provide you with the sample code, and a brie(ish) explaination of the main functionality. I have (tried to 
) code using best practice, so it should be reasonably easy to follow within the fla.
It incorporates the Tween animation class for a more organic movement of the selection bar, and can be used across a wide variation of applications for a basic navigation system.”
you can view it here.
as always, if you can improve upon it (which i’m sure a lot of you can ) or have any comments, please let me know, as i am still quite new to this ‘blogging’ business, or email me the updated script.
cheers
Matt