New services and focus business model for Fixture Media AUGUST 2011
This year has finally donated a little time to further develop its processes that better fit a changing face of IT business for medium and larger scale busineses. Refocusing into quantifiable outcomes in user developed business solutions means that our services model and approach to client work has tighter definitions but better more measureable outcomes for the clients.
OUR SERVICES >> STReaMLine Mobile DEVELOPMENt & TEStING | UX & USability REPORTING |Flash, FLEX, JS APPS
See our E-Learning and training page for further details >> E - LEARING/TRAINGING
Flash CS4/Flex 3D coverflow production Jan - March 2009... see below for details...
The 3D Coverflow represented here is a class driven implementation representing the use of nested library images loading into programmatically drawn circles. These in turn represented in programmatically drawn faces of the 3D Box object Class. This is an adaptation of the ADOBE CS4 samples content for AS3and of course published for Flash Player 10.
Rendering Bitmaps in 3D in Flash CS4 has become a simpler part of the creative process for production of custom coverflows. Here the mouse driven movement simply demostrates the use of the Z Axis variables that designers now have at their displosal.
Further 3D and sample content is available in the Custom Components section of the site.
Jan- Feb 2009 The Mining Industry Skills Centre Flash v Moodle (PHP LMS architecture) implementation
This project was undertaken as a Flash legacy consultency for the MISC located in Brisbane. The project delivered a massive body of Flash AS1/2 legacy content for e-Learning across basic mining OHS programs for all mining facilities nation wide. Challenges here were appropriately focused on risk mitigation of deliverables in controlling remote design teams for the optimisation of the Flash content. The main challenges in delivery were the content itself showing great diversity in original implementation and certainly several step prior to real AS2 best practise. Moodle, a PHP LMS, is still iits Fledgling years and while on its way as an OS package could still use a year or 2 in development. Big mention for the work of Mat Bury in providing good pluggin resources for the Moodle platform.
October - Nov 2008 The MakeBook RIA Design and Architecture online book publishing and file sharing application for Flex 4.0 (GUMBO)
The idea of creating online publishing tools for collaboration and book publishing is not a new one. With Flex 4.0 Gumbo the increased ability with type meant that authors could publish a variety of different layouts with far greater freedom in text manipulation. The UI for this was a 2 week design implementation for a delivery of CSS styled Flex delivery with Flash custom components, icons and content.
July - August 2008 MoneyBox RIA Application Design for Financial Services.
The MoneyBox RIA application design is an example of Flex state driven RIA including video and documentation delivery for a Flex user interface. This application is driven by a Coldfusion back end. As a financial services application it will drive the education resources sector of the finance community. This implementation was for platform versions Flex 3.0, ColdFusion 8.
October-Nov 2008 Flash/Flex Development Current: April 2008 - Dec 2008 Consulting on MVC Flash/Flex development for Moneybox PTYLTD (Cairngorm, GUI architecture),
October 2008 MakeBook UI Architecture & Design development for Flex 4.0 Cairngorm Application,
August 2008 Spinifex Events onsite Flash UI (custom mvc),
April 2008 Adplace XegenIT (custom FLEX MVC advertising placement engine in NZ).
May April 2008 - June2008: Rocketboots design package for WEBDU 2008.
As the fantastic WEBDU conference rolls around again for the ADOBE user community Fixture media assisted as a Rocketboots Associate in designing the CODE WAR trophy and other general conference paraphernalia for the festivities. Rocketboots now is getting ready to re-launch itself with a new and rejuvenated management team. Look out for the Rocketboots Services flag flying with a select few of the top Flash/Flex and ColdFusion developers working in Australia in 2008 and onwards. They will be developing, architecting & designing many developments in ADOBE technologies content from now on in Australia. Not to mention training most of you out there.
April 2008 - June2008: Flash/FLEX GUI design and development for an automated Flash based advertising placement and engine structure.
Contracted to undertake the development of a Flex/Flash based advertising application which constructs advertsining for Flash content for medium to small businesses who normally would not be able to afford the costs of advertising on major web labels with this type of dynamic content. The application included full users walkthroughs, great looking FLEX GUI, administration components and Flash templating systems. Further details not available as under contract.
January 2008 - The Mushu website design and architecture for Unconundorum design
While a carry over development from last year the Mushubag.com project seems to have grown well with age. The stores doing well as are their online customised Flash AS2.0 ordering tools.
Dec 2007 – April 2008: Flash CS3 coursework updating, design and development.
Contracted to DynamicWebTaining.com.au, a SEEK.com.au owned company based in Sydney, Ad elaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. This is one of Australia’s leading education institutions for ADOBE technologies training. This project is the renovation of Flash 8 series coursework to encompass all levels of Flash use in the contemporary community for the Flash CS3 professional product release of 2007. A huge undertaking it is over 1000 pages of documentation, plus coursework files, base project redesign and also renovation of education and training deliverables.
November 2007 Grueden Sydney Office : Artwork Implementation and Development for Vodafone dynamic advertising campaign website. Flex 2.0
A fast but seamless renovation and delivery of a Flex 2.0 driven mobile phone e-commerce website just in time for the 2007 XMAS season. Work focused mainly around implementation of artwork, GUI development and also application front end optimisation. All contract work done under Rocketboots.
November 2007 HTML and Flash design and implementation for Rocketboots website. [To be delivered]
Redesign and structuring of the Rocketboots website with Flash integration and artwork implementation. This site needed a substantial upgrade in look and feel as well as a new structuring for the data workflow. Working in coordination with Rocketboots director Robin Hilliard this site was front end delivered in December 2007. It will go live in early 2008.
Nov 2007 Infomedia : Automotive Parts Ordering System Flex 2.0 Redesign and runtime CSS implementation.
Working at the Frenchs Forest headquarters with Clinton Ennis and his team through Rocketboots consulting work on redesigning a runtime CSS skinned franchise switching mass ordering environment for one of their current up and coming releases for of the Microcat Market 2008. Here the use of Flex CSS runtime in Flex 2.01 atop of the Cairngorm dev environment was interesting. Of course a pleasure working with the brilliant team in Development out there.
July 2007 TAFMO Content Management system Design consulting and Flex 2.01 and 3 Beta testing.
Working alongside Greg McCreath Head of development at Tafmo (Australian based finance technologies developer) Justin McLean (UI architecture)and myself designed a CSS skinned Eclipse style CMS environment for one of their current up and coming releases for 2008. Snapshots to come soon.
2007 >> Adobe FLEX 2.0, FLASH 8.0 [all courses], Dreamweaver course instruction.
Working continuously to the demand for new developers and designers this year has been a busy one for training with DynamicWebTraining o the east coast with many classes in both Sydney and Melbourne teaching ActionScript and Flex and Flash design content.
ADOBE Advanced FLEX 2.0 training and FLASH 8.0 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER CERTIFICATION .
A full week at ADOBE in lovely Sydney doing a FLEX two training program for designers where we created rich flash style environments in FLEX. In particular the use of Flash properties for Flash 8 and 9. This was particularly interesting with the inclusion of Actionscrip 3 and the new filtering capabilities of Flash 9. There goes my FLASH 8.0 DEVELOPER CERTIFICATION with ADOBE.
September October Fairfax & The Financial Review: V 1.1
This version 1.1 of the AFRAccess website is a portlet based site and vastly improves on the build for the alpha version of the AFRAccess site. This site is build in Flex 1.5 with the inclusion of Flash components and skinning, The majority of this version was designed with programmatic skinning in mind. It has a smoother and slicker feel with vast improvements site wide in performance.
AugustSeptember 06 Sony Ericsson MINI site K800i Mobile Technology.
This Full FLASH 8 enabled site is a combination of scaled skinned Components and rich youth market design. Run in parallel to it contains a fully functional photo gallery for the four main campaign characters with email functionality and some well themed forms the site build was managed in a 4 week period with a lots of last minute content.
Australian Financial Review AFR Access Advertising Mosaic Build: The return of the "Million Dollar Adpage..."
This was an interesting and also long construction, optimisation and implementation of a functionally complex tool for the AFR Access website with full logging of all user interactivity, plus modifications to an originally problematic design that would require some very intuitive workarounds for database integration and mirrored functionality for HTML versions of the tool.
Jan-April 2006 CANON/CISRA
The start of 2006 went off with a bang.... working with Design and Research at Canons Research and Development Arm CISRA. Design team management and consulting for CISRA was a blast at the start of the year with a 4 month long placement with a fantastic group of engineers, designers and managers over in Marquarie park. Briefly... a challenge in meeting a rigorous design specification for multifunction UI with over 200 separate UI stages within it, a broad range of in process QA and also in job optimisation for minimal processor environments. This was as challenging as it was exciting. A great achievement for all involved by our final deadlines.