Design software focuses on the digital creation or re-creation of a thing or idea. Types of design range from print media, web site, computational, 3-dimensional, structural, simulation, and more. Simulation and modeling software is closely related and sometimes integrated with design software.
Visualization software includes applications that help visualize concepts, ideas, or scenarios. This includes diagramming, geographical visualization, molecular and structure visualization, graphical data representations, and some animation.
Also included in this category are applications used in presentations. This includes not only Powerpoint and powerpoint style presentations, but live polling software, presentation capture software, and web presentations as well. As well, applications used to create, edit, convert, or touch up digital images. Software ranges from photo editing, photo cataloging, graphic design, and diagramming. Finally there are applications used to edit web pages including code editors, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editors, and Content Management (CMS) systems that organize and manage web pages on a server.
Availability: Faculty/Staff
Adobe Animate CC is an animation tool within Adobe Creative Cloud that replaces Adobe Flash Professional. Users can create advertisements, multimedia content, vector animations, and games in a timeline-based authoring environment. Animate incorporates native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support. Projects published in HTML5 canvas support HiDPI and Retina displays.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of software for graphic design, photography, web development, video editing, and cloud services. Software is downloaded and installed on the local machine and can be used as long as the subscription remains valid. Software upgrades are available immediately and includes saving to the cloud.
A list of software included in the university license of Creative Cloud can be viewed here. Mobile apps are available from the App Store. The university has an agreement with Adobe that allows Adobe Creative Cloud to be installed on university owned computers and on faculty and staff personal computers.
Adobe Creative Suite (CS6) is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications. All of these features create attractive websites, documents, and printed content available for all users, from people learning in school to graphic artists and professionals.
Adobe Creative Suite is being replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud.