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I've been designing and prototyping this way for a few years now. I still keep Photoshop and Illustrator around to prototype look and feel or specific design e

by jgj 13y ago

I've been designing and prototyping this way for a few years now. I still keep Photoshop and Illustrator around to prototype look and feel or specific design elements that can't be more readily achieved with CSS. Colors and type can at times be faster to experiment with in one of those tools. But I haven't sliced a PSD in years (except when developing another designer's work). The other benefit is that your design can be readily kept in source control, in branches if need be, and if you have a good process in place and are thoughtful in your markup conventions, can be swapped between almost seamlessly. Firebug/CDT are great for quickly tweaking a design...I imagine (hope?) the next wave of web design software would be much like those, except with an easier way to edit markup, work directly on files and integrate with source control. I suppose you can get some analogous with a browser reload plugin hooked to your text editor or filesystem.

ThomPete 13y ago
I second this. There is a few tools I would like to see developed to help this process, so I still need illustrator or fireworks (haven't used PSD for a long time after religiously using it for almost a decade) for a few things, especially when sketching concepts, but other than that it's easier and faster to script it. Now if someone would develop a proper animation tool then that would get me excited. Something like how Flash was in the beginning. I know how to user after effects and can kind of get around Quarts, but they are both every cumbersome and not by default very well integrated into the design process.
- rpicard 13y ago
  The animation software Bret Victor demos in his "Inventing on Principle" talk looks pretty cool [1]. I don't know of anywhere the software from the talk is available though. http://vimeo.com/36579366 http://vimeo.com/36579366
  - ThomPete 13y ago
    Yeah I love this work and have been following him all the way back from when he wrote Magic Inc. I am not convinced about his particular way of doing animation though.

by jgj 13y ago

ThomPete 13y ago

I second this. There is a few tools I would like to see developed to help this process, so I still need illustrator or fireworks (haven't used PSD for a long time after religiously using it for almost a decade) for a few things, especially when sketching concepts, but other than that it's easier and faster to script it. Now if someone would develop a proper animation tool then that would get me excited. Something like how Flash was in the beginning. I know how to user after effects and can kind of get around Quarts, but they are both every cumbersome and not by default very well integrated into the design process.

rpicard 13y ago
The animation software Bret Victor demos in his "Inventing on Principle" talk looks pretty cool [1]. I don't know of anywhere the software from the talk is available though. http://vimeo.com/36579366 http://vimeo.com/36579366
- ThomPete 13y ago
  Yeah I love this work and have been following him all the way back from when he wrote Magic Inc. I am not convinced about his particular way of doing animation though.