[Sigia-l] Thermo (was AXURE and prototyping demonstrations)

[Ziya Oz]

Farmer, Rod:

> this is by far the closest thing I have seen to date that meets our
> requirements. 

John Fullerton:

> Thermo demo video

> http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2007/10/02/adobe-max-chicago-thermo

Exactly. This is why I facetiously started the thread with an allusion to
Thermo.

What's interesting is the approach, in comparison to pretty much everything
else out there. Yes, there's MS Blend, which wants to travel in the same
path, but because it's from MS that has little insight into how designers
actually work, it's inadequate at least in this release.

Leveraging Adobe's PostScript, Photoshop, Flash and Flex assets, Thermo
moves the pivot of design-level decisioning squarely into the domain of
designers. 

As an exercise, think of just how many annotations and reams of
documentation have been made obsolete by the designers ability to define not
just the look and feel but also the behavior and data binding of the slider
example in that video, when compared to what one would have to do in a
static wireframe environment. Sure some of that can be captured in Axure or
other similar prototyping tools but they leave so much to imagination and
interpretation that one is compelled to do a lot of dirty work to convey the
flavor of the design proposition manually *in addition* to the
wireframe...or skip the whole thing.

There are only two companies on the planet that can produce this level of
design technology. One of them will deliver it next year, likely to be
polished enough in 18-24 months. Hopefully, they'll execute better than MS.

-- 
Ziya

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If it didn't, you'd be out of a job.