Finally it’s there. The first Rich Internet Designer tool, called “Thermo”. I wish I was at Adobe Max 2007, but that’s not affordable for a student like me :). But Aral Balkan is a very nice guy, and he shot some movies from the sneak preview of “Thermo”.Part 1Part 2Part 3You can see, I has some nice features. Import PSD files. Converting these bitmaps to components, without losing the styles. A real nice way to convert items in the design to dummy data. And also a really nice way to connect components to each other (see last video).Adobe does promote this tool for designers, but I think developers will be happy too. I also think this could be a great tool for Rapid Prototyping. Customers could already play with the application, without you having to code something. With this tool, design can be interactive without much effort.All this, becomes with a downside. Rich Tretola (EverythingFlex) is pointing this out correctly with his post “Why Thermo scares me”. As you can see. Everything is becoming one giant MXML. You can see all the embedded images, for each graphic container. This does no good for the size of your SWF file. Also it generates code, but what about your Flex (MVC) framework? Does it fit in? We just have to wait and see.Although “Thermo” is just in starting blocks of development, it promises to be a great product for future Flex Development. Can’t wait to see more!You can also find more information about thermo on Adobe Labs.

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