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To comment a bit on the introductory topic (interface design vs. graphic design), for a while there around when this was published, it seemed like we were going
by lotyrin 8y ago
To comment a bit on the introductory topic (interface design vs. graphic design), for a while there around when this was published, it seemed like we were going to finally understand the difference between UI design and graphic design, and I'd occasionally see Balsamiq sketch-style wireframes of A UI paired with Illustrator style guides as the input to customer conversations and after acceptance as the input to the implementation process (with answers to things like "what is this component called" or "is this something we plan on using more than once") but now it seems the trend has regressed with Invision prototypes made of static raster images -- worse even than the "here's a PSD, have fun" days -- and I have to ask for documentation of font faces, border radii, get the copy as actual text, etc., and determine what the intentions behind a design are by myself -- "Guess this color is 'primary', this one 'secondary' and uh this one is... just 'yellow'" "Oh... there's two slightly different shades of red between this and that page examples... I will assume that's a mistake, until I hear any different...".