This morning Adobe made available for download beta versions of Adobe Flash Catalyst (previously code named “Thermo”) and Adobe Flash Builder 4 (the next version of the current Flex Builder 3 IDE).
Flash Catalyst is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding. With this new tool, designers can transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® into functional user interfaces, create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product, or publish a finished project as a SWF file ready for distribution.
Flash Builder 4 delivers a long list of new features, plus improvements to many existing features. There are three main themes to this release: developer productivity, designer-developer workflow, and data-centric application development.
With these two new tools the workflow between designers and developers easier than ever. Designers that use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience provide the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.
You can download Adobe Flash Catalyst and Adobe Flash Builder from http://labs.adobe.com/
Enjoy!!!
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