flex - How to design desktop app ? (from web app dev) -

I have worked only on web applications for my entire career I started a new desktop (Adobe AIR) app project

I'm having trouble in myself:

• Stuck in thinking about the overall UI design in the traditional page model
• Do not take advantage of the states
• To ensure that what is being implemented on the client vs. server side New (or both?).

Any advice? Thank you.

Look at other desktop apps how they can solve common problems

Many e-mail clients such as Split View

Views divided into toolbars

Several recurring patterns have emerged for the last several years:

• Most web The tabbed document interface in the browser
• Multi-column view

See how other apps use these things and ideas Come up with how you can use them.

Though there is a part about ideas ... you have to do all that.