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Although I think this tool is fantastic, and an asset to the design community, i think it is an attempt at making the wrong tool for the job slightly less wrong

Although I think this tool is fantastic, and an asset to the design community, i think it is an attempt at making the wrong tool for the job slightly less wrong. Photoshop was never designed, optimized, or planned around UI designers - it's audience is photographers. I applaud projects like this, but sometimes its just better to use a tool that was build from the ground up around UI design, not an app that can be hacked to the point where it can somewhat deliver the results that UI designers need. I personally use Sketch and Sketch Mirror and have found that the native support for device mirroring, retina resolutions, and CSS layer styles have become an essential part of my workflow. Photoshop gets REALLY messy as soon as you get a few iterations into a big project, and although there are hacks to get around some of the frustrations, at the end of the day they are just that: hacks.

brubaker 12y ago
Photoshop may not have been for that use, but it is now and the audience has grown wildly beyond just photographers.
grrowl 12y ago
Unfortunately, you're right (about "the wrong tool for the job"), but just as you use the best tool for you and for the job, many designers love Photoshop and it is the industry standard. For now, this is the best solution unless you're both designing and developing.
oelmekki 12y ago
I'm more interested in the cross platform thing from avocode than css generation. As an webdeveloper on linux, doing the frontend development work from psds is always a pain, as gimp has only partial support (mostly : can't work with text and still have mis-rendering issues) and I don't see myself buying the overpriced photoshop and opening a virtual machine (or uploading any psd I may use) just to get font sizes and names. I don't know anyone using sketch, but I suppose for what I see it's macosx only ?

brubaker 12y ago

Photoshop may not have been for that use, but it is now and the audience has grown wildly beyond just photographers.

grrowl 12y ago

Unfortunately, you're right (about "the wrong tool for the job"), but just as you use the best tool for you and for the job, many designers love Photoshop and it is the industry standard. For now, this is the best solution unless you're both designing and developing.

oelmekki 12y ago

I'm more interested in the cross platform thing from avocode than css generation. As an webdeveloper on linux, doing the frontend development work from psds is always a pain, as gimp has only partial support (mostly : can't work with text and still have mis-rendering issues) and I don't see myself buying the overpriced photoshop and opening a virtual machine (or uploading any psd I may use) just to get font sizes and names. I don't know anyone using sketch, but I suppose for what I see it's macosx only ?