Nice UI built using Adobe AIR 2.0 from SQLI Agency for a French rail company.

What will 2010 hold for us technology wise. The rise of multitouch applications and interfaces which are now quite common amongst us. This is a prototype of a tablet UI done by Time Inc. While not exactly mind blowing, it's interesting how our interfaces and UI's are going to have to change with the advent of new inputs like gesture control, multitouch and voice.

 

Sports Illustrated - Tablet Demo 1.5 from The Wonderfactory on Vimeo.

As I mentioned in a previous post the Adobe Flex project for Prudential that I worked on has one a prestigious Revolution Award in the financial category. The retirement planner was the first RIA application for Prudential, however the decision to go with the Flex solution to provide a richer user experience has paid off. It's a shame that many companies shun the idea of breaking the mould and going with RIA technologies like Flex and AIR. This project goes to show that bold management and technical decisions, well designed and executed can produce a market leading innovate solution to drive revenue. So a big well done to all people on the Prudential Retire Your Way project. You can download the Revolution Awards 2009 winners PDF from here.

I have just been informed that an Adobe Flex application that I worked on last year has been shortlisted for a Revolution Award in the financial services category. The application is a retirement planning tool for Prudential in the UK and developed using web services in Adobe Flex 2. It guides the user through a journey of calculating how much money they are likely to have at retirement, find any possible shortfalls then save and review the information at a later date. I was the lead Flex UI developer and responsible for the skinning of the Flex user interface, transitions and custom view components. The project incorporated a custom Flex 3d chart that was built as an extension to the standard Flex charting components. The skinning was done using Flash CS3 assets as symbols and then applied using CSS and scale nine.

Launched in 1997, the Revolution Awards recognise digital marketers and their agencies for outstanding work in promoting products and services and have become the premier annual event for the digital marketing industry

The Prudential planner is up against Dare Digital for Barclays and Harvest Digital for NatWest in the finance category. You can download a PDF of the shortlisted contenders for the Revolution Awards 2009 from the site here. The project is now maintained in-house.