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Do you have ideas on better tools for designers? I do for programmers, but if designers are a bigger bottleneck it would be great if their tools could be improv
by jules 17y ago
Do you have ideas on better tools for designers? I do for programmers, but if designers are a bigger bottleneck it would be great if their tools could be improved too :)
- maurycy 17y agoUnfortunately, no. I'm a programmer and sometimes a manager, not a designer. I don't know their pains too deeply. I merely keep seeing that the period between their "aha!" moment and the final implementation is definitely too long. If I'd have to give any hints, I'd stick with what I wrote above, expanding it a bit. Photoshop is a handy tool but it tends to attract people who are not web designers (there was a thread few days ago that you should hire a web designer for web design; a logo designer for logo etc.); also, it requires some experience with XHTML/CSS to get the fonts right, or realize that grid matters. On the other hand, current CSS frameworks are rather painful to work with. I saw Blueprint hijacked million times, and the whole reloading concept is a big headache for non tech savvy folks. (unfortunately, the same applies to Compass)