Here’s my short report from event that took place in Helsinki today.
It was organized by our favourite Adobe and it was called Rich Internet Experience Tour.
The event was divided into two parts – there were presentations focused on the design part in the morning and there was developers’ part in the afternoon. Although I feel both – I was able to attend just the first part.
It started with Serge Jaspers’ general presentation about Flash and AIR together with some demos and showcases. Although I learned nothing new – the presentation was top notch and it was fun to watch. (I need to mentioned how fearless Serge is – he kept going with the presentation even though he kept getting electrified several from the static electricity. I guess the Adobe Evangelists’ training is similar to Navy SEALs).
After that, there was a presentation by two guys from Perfect Fools. (The company has got 19 FWA awards!). The work they have showcased was totally stunning (like Mentos KissCam or H&M.
Too bad the presentation was rather “flat” (compared to Serge’s – with a joke every 5 minutes and getting electro-shocks), but I was pretty speechless after it anyway.
After short break (note: You could see that there’s a depression. At my last Adobe event (onAIR tour) there were excellent snacks&drinks – in Helsinki you only got coffee;) there was another presentation by Serge – regarding the Flash Catalysys. Revolution is coming for people who do interface design for Flex applications.
The design part ended with presentation by Johan Lopez from swedish company called Swiff, who showcased the project that incorported speech recognition in Flash (actually – speech recognition was done by the server-side Java program – but client is in flash). Pretty cool.
This was rather showcasing event aimed for designers (I guess more technical details were shown in the second part) – and for me it was extremely interesting and inspiring.
One final quote from the Perfect Fools speech (I quote from memory).
Great projects are made of excellent and innovative code and supreme design. You can’t build really successful work without both.
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