Comments on: Grey as Rain http://www.webusability.se/blog/2007/06/27/grey-as-rain/ Creating a Web with Better Usability, Piece by Piece Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:53:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Emma http://www.webusability.se/blog/2007/06/27/grey-as-rain/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Emma Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:13:51 +0000 http://www.webusability.se/blog/2007/06/27/grey-as-rain/#comment-9 I think that a persons background when it comes to webdesign has a lot to do with how he/she works today. When I did my first website I started with the code right away. The "design" was just in my head. Back then it was more important to play with blink and marquee-tags then to figure out how it would look in the end. I was more fascinated with the code than the design process - still am. Doing the whole design in Photoshop feels really redundant. A worse case scenario would be that my skills in Photoshop (or should I say 'lack of skills'?) would actually restrict me from doing what I see in my head. Why not use a pen and a paper? I most certainly would not be able to aply the Photoshop process in my work as a newspaper design editor. Sometimes, when I feel that the articles I'm working with are really complex, I have to sketch on paper. But then I keep it on a very basic level. It's only for straightening out the mess in my head just a little bit so I know what elements I'm working with. Of course I realize that using Photoshop doesn't really apply to me - since it would be pointless to use one design program (Photoshop) before actually doing the real design in another (Indesign). But still. I think that a persons background when it comes to webdesign has a lot to do with how he/she works today. When I did my first website I started with the code right away. The “design” was just in my head. Back then it was more important to play with blink and marquee-tags then to figure out how it would look in the end. I was more fascinated with the code than the design process – still am.

Doing the whole design in Photoshop feels really redundant. A worse case scenario would be that my skills in Photoshop (or should I say ‘lack of skills’?) would actually restrict me from doing what I see in my head. Why not use a pen and a paper? I most certainly would not be able to aply the Photoshop process in my work as a newspaper design editor. Sometimes, when I feel that the articles I’m working with are really complex, I have to sketch on paper. But then I keep it on a very basic level. It’s only for straightening out the mess in my head just a little bit so I know what elements I’m working with. Of course I realize that using Photoshop doesn’t really apply to me – since it would be pointless to use one design program (Photoshop) before actually doing the real design in another (Indesign). But still.

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