Skipping Photoshop for UI
37 Signal’s Jason Fried on why they skip building a Photoshop mockup, while designing a UI, and go right away hacking with HTML/CSS. I couldn’t agree more. However, I strongly believe that this works only with small cohesive teams. Projects that involve a large number of engineers, will invariably require a mockup UI so that the goals are clear.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I do that almost all the time for most of the projects i work on, but thats mainly because I dont have much of visual detailing involved. But jumping directly into a production tool could be limiting the possibilities that could be explored using a prototyping tool. fireworks works best for me.
Ofcourse, if time is a limitation, you would naturally skip the prototyping trial&error route and opt for a tried and tested technique.
June 4th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
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