Last year was one of monumental ups and downs, historic transitions and achievements in design and technology that will have long-lasting effects on the way creative companies like Mightybytes serve our clients. Despite general economic woes, design and communication technology still forged ahead and we all reaped the benefits. We polled each other around the office and came up with the following list of things that significantly changed not only the way we do things at Mightybytes but had an impact…

Tai uses widgets like Symbol Caddy, SuperRule, CSS Typography Calculator, and the Lorem Ipsum Widget on a daily basis for many web projects. These mini-apps help streamline the development process by putting common tasks like adding greek text and adjusting font size on web pages at his fingertips.

Though it’s still many months from a final release, Flash Catalyst promises to change designer/developer workflows for Flash apps.

Sporting a GUI with familiar design tools, Catalyst allows designers to build interfaces with interactivity but without having to know a lot of code. What’s revolutionary about this application is that it writes files that developers can open in Flex without altering their structure. Thus, designers and developers can bounce files back and forth during development, making iterative tweaks to interface and functionality without having to retool each other’s work.

Tapeless cameras have been around for a while now, but Travis is pretty sure that our HD Sony PMW-EX1 is camera nirvana. The vast number of professional features, the quality of HD footage it shoots, and the ease with which we can now shoot and edit onsite if necessary has made this camera the cornerstone of our production environment.

Tim and Travis both agree that Flip Video’s Mino HD camera is industry-changing. HD footage that is pristine in quality from a device about the size of an iPod Nano with a price tag under $300.00 is just astounding.