It’s one of my Flash days you know. I look for portfolios with Flash and find something interesting - next thing you know I am trying to get an interview. So, last week I visted the website of Andre’ Augusto at http://www.andreaugusto.com.br/ . After you have a look you’ll see why I interviewed Andre’.

How did you get into web design? “I love ‘Worms 2,’ an extrategic game and I play it a lot. I remember we needed to get in to a clan to be good and all clans need a site. So I start to create many stuffs to internet and always wishing the best design and ideas to owns that game. So that’s it, I start to create site for clans of games online.”

Do you remember the very first site you designed? “Yes I do. I remember very clean my first site. It has an URL of CJB.NET I remember all sites non professional use it in that season. It has my complete name and was very big like www.andreaugustodeoliveira.cjb.net I made it between 1996 at 1997, it has many animated gif, pictures and few words. That was my first experience creation stuffs to internet.”

You are doing a lot of Flash, is this a specialization for you? “I believe that it was unexpected that it became to be a specializalization. Beginning the main reason for me to create flash projects was the full inspiration of the legend studio 2advanced.com I remember that they did amazing stuff just with the Flash 5 - macromedia yet. I told to myself I just wish to create stuffs like that someday. It was my first target. Along the way I realize other sides of the creative world on internet, others styles and still amazing and it made me full in love by the job. I like so much to animate as I like to do interface design, usability and illustration.”

Have you ever worked with website templates? “I have one experience with templates. In 2006 when I was invited to develop an intranet to a Telecom Company. It was a partnership by marketing and creation with the IT. I made the templates and the IT department was supposed to program it.”

What website template providers have you tried? “I know templatemonster.com from a long time ago, and I always like it and sometimes my ideas for animation comes from there. . . they are really professional and can be inspiration for many guys.”

What do you think about Flash Technology? “As I said, I always enjoy it and it was my main reason to work with creation. But today, the way I see it is different. I believe the popular fame of Flash maybe is his weak too. New guys is using it the wrong way, making website non sense of usability and user experience. I heard about who cares about the technology is the developer, not the user. Sometimes people use Flash a lot their needs. So I recommend the use only when it’s fully necessary to make available the message that you wan’t to say. In the other hand, there are many Flash Projects never see before and people like it, the news, bold, but behind this sucess is very much work, search, study, etc. Before you judge some project you need to ask yourself how long time people lose to do that, look for details, the art, branding, you can enjoy it and bring to your projects too.”

What are your sources of inspiration? “I like to visit portfolios, agencies and designers, I like to visit award, like FWA, DOPE, LOUNGE, etc. I like to keep all that arts that I enjoy. I like to keep graphic stuffs too, it always bring ideas for my projects. Watch TV, Movies, Music World Helps too.”

Thank you Andre’ for your take on design and particularly Flash.

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