CategoryFireworks

December 19, 2013 — Adobe is feature-freezing Fireworks. And it is not offering a replacement tool for Fireworks users. What does this mean for you if you use Fireworks to design user interfaces and screens? In this article, Michel Bozgounov will take a close look at Adobe Fireworks, explaining why it is a unique and powerful design tool, how we can continue to use it effectively, and what our alternatives are for the future. Read more…

November 16, 2013 — Many designers and design teams make the mistake of thinking that their work is done once they’ve completed the visual design stage, and this is where Specctr can help. Specctr is a plugin for Adobe applications, which transitions a visual design to production by enabling you to specify form and function. It automatically generates a specification and creates a blueprint for the design, which saves a lot of time! Read more…

November 6, 2013 — This article is the third part of an article series about improving your design workflow in Adobe Fireworks with some of the best extensions currently available. You may want to check out the first and second parts if you’re not already familiar with them. Read more…

September 20, 2013 — In the previous article on Smashing Magazine, we discussed seven excellent extensions that could fundamentally change your Web design workflow in Adobe Fireworks. Ashish Bogawat would like to add to the list six more extensions. These are extensions that he always installs whenever he sets up Adobe Fireworks for himself or anyone on his team and that have proven to be big time-savers over the period that I’ve been using them. Read more…

August 26, 2013 — Thanks to strong mobile Web adoption worldwide, we have seen the launch of even more responsive designs in 2012 and 2013. Most of these have been in the publishing category, but lately we are starting to see complex transactional websites, such as Currys UK, take a brave step into this new world. Read more…

May 2, 2013 — With a solid foundation, the house is stable, and building on it is easy. With a solid grid, your design can easily be adapted to accommodate whatever changes come along. Today, we’ll share iOS Grid System, which I’ve been using when designing apps in Adobe Fireworks. Read more…

April 4, 2013 — Demonstrating your designs on a wide range of devices can be time-consuming. In this article, Craig Lawson shows us the Create Demo extension. It automatically converts your Fireworks documents into portable presentations, which can then be easily presented in any browser — desktop or mobile. Read more…

February 15, 2013 — There are many ways to create wireframes, click-throughs and prototypes. In the end, what matters is that the process of creation is fast and accurate and that the output is of a high enough fidelity to generate the appropriate level of feedback. Read more…

January 25, 2013 — After following the steps in Part 1, we now have everything to start building the prototype. But first, Shlomo explains how to create a “live” iOS prototype. Read more…

January 11, 2013 — Did you know that you can use Fireworks in combination with other tools to create complex iOS prototypes (for both the iPhone and iPad) with similar ease? Read more…