Adobe Flex is a new medium specifically created for designing and developing rich Internet applications, or RIAs. RIAs are a new breed of applications that break out of the constraints of traditional web and desktop environments to provide a more fluid, information-focused user experience. Flex makes it much easier to create these experiences, but it requires application designers and developers to think differently about the application design problem than they did when creating traditional web and desktop applications.
The Designing for Flex series surveys new possibilities, techniques, and challenges designers and developers will confront when designing Flex rich Internet applications. Specifically, the series covers: planning and structuring Flex applications, special considerations for designing web versus desktop Flex applications, the design of rich content displays, appropriate use of motion in application design, improving an application�s efficiency of use, and ensuring your users feel safe using your application and trust it with their data. We have supplemented the series with an ever-growing set of components and sample code to assist you in applying the theory presented here. In the near future, we also plan to release the official set of "Flex Interface Guidelines" that describe in depth how to apply the Adobe standard for Flex application design to your projects.