I saw Devin Fernandez and Winsha Chen of Adobe speak on how Adobe rolls Alpha versions for new products and what new products it is experimenting with at SXSW. New things:
- Gadget is Adobe's answer to the Google Chrome Developer Tools. It is a Google Chrome extension built in Backbone allowing one to hover over browser elements to get CSS details. What is more, you may change details right there at the browser and have the effect make its way back to the underlying file. The demonstration included changing a color on the fly and in that scenario a familiar looking Adobe color picker appeared. By default one is making inline style changes when using this tool, but there is also a way to pick a selector and make a global change there.
- ASTRIcss is a tool for searching those 500 line CSS files that you inherit. You may constrain a search to be to specific properties and/or selectors.
- Floto was to be a Twitter Bootstrap prototyping tool, but this ended up being something that died early. The problem was that prototyping as a term means many different things to many different people. An assessment of product/market fit has to be made for all potential tools and this one could not overcome the fact that designers and developers wanted two different things.
- Parfait! allows for layer hunting in a multi-layered Adobe Photoshop .psd file. One may search for content and pull just the layer desired out to a .png or .jpg file. This is intended to be a helper for those times when you are handed a .psd that is one big rat's nest and you just need to find a particular layer within it. Parfait! also includes a means for easily uploading a .psd file to a cloud.
- Magpie is a tool for emailing notes to yourself, which we all do. It somehow makes the experience better.
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