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FlashForward Presentation Response

FlashForward has come and gone and at last, we've received our audience response. Over all, I'd like to thank everyone again for attending our presentation, and we're stoked about the feedback.

Our presentation was definitely based on common sense. It's definitely an odd topic to try to approach in that respect. Our original "pitch" to Lynda was to offer a "primer" session for Designers who want to get into object orientated programming with CS3/AS3. Ala, we wanted to help designers start to understand the development side of things so they can co-mingle better. However, when we talked to the people at Lynda, after we were accepted, we noticed that their interpretation of our pitch was a bit different than our intentions (not to mention Peter Elst basically covered that kind of content).

However, it wasn't a bad interpretation at all. We feel as if most people do not talk about the problems faced in the office and we also believe there are some issues between Designers, Developers, Copywriters, Production Managers and the sort. Especially given that we have this technology that changes every year. It's the sort of thing that we believe needs to be constantly talked about, otherwise we just fall into our patterns and continue to look at things the same way or just get plain lazy.

Needless to say, our session wasn't for everyone. In fact, we received a few harsh responses to the content and approach. However, for the most part, we got a lot of great feedback, especially while we we're at the conference. I think a lot of people were expecting us to show specific examples of how to improve the technical workflow of a project, but we knew there were already sessions concerning that kind of stuff so we avoided it. We really wanted our message to feel more human than, say, technical.

With this said, we had a great time at FlashForward and we are thankful to have the opportunity. Of all of the 'geeky' communities out there, the Flash community is definitely one of the more creative and supportive.

Thank you everyone,
~marc & matt

ps: sorry for the delayed response.

Flash Forward – The Day After.

We finally got around to creating a smaller version of our presentation [Designers vs. Developers ... yadda yadda yadda]. The original slides were like sixteen-billion megawatts big. This is a bit smaller.

[ FLASH FORWARD PRESENTATION FILES ]

Sorry it took up a while to do this ... We're just exhausted from FlashForward and from the german beer fest that was today. Matt's still in Boston, we're just chillin out today, playing SKATE. for the 360. Awesome game. Although we just found a huge glitch. HA!

Well .. enjoy the weekend. A big thanks goes to those who attended our presentation ... Those who didn't get no thanks at all! Jerks! heh..

Flash Forward

We'd like to say 'thank you' to everyone who attended our presentation this afternoon. We really appreciate the support. And if you were wondering, the slides will be posted tomorrow. I'm too tired to do anything right now.

We're interested in seeing what everyone thought of our presentation. Also, what would you like to see offered if we were to revamp and represent this topic again.

Thank you again. Also, if you see either Matt and myself walking around, please feel free to say hello.

FlashForward Podcast Live

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Our interview is posted up on the FlashForward Conference blog. About two months ago, Christoph at FlashForward interviewed Matt and me over the phone. At the time, I was at Schematic. I'm no longer with Schematic, but the material still sticks since it's all about what we're going to be chatting up on Thursday. Hopefully this will entice you to stop into our presentation.

[ FlashForward PodCast with Matt & Me ]

Anyways, I'm stoked about FF .. see you there!