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The Lost Art of Design Etiquette

Dan Rose
July 03, 2013
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The Lost Art of Design Etiquette

Updated version presented as an RGD Webinar. The Infamous Photoshop Etiquette Origin Story.

Dan Rose

July 03, 2013
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Transcript

  1. THE LOST ART OF Design Etique e

  2. Dan Rose UI DESIGNER SYRACUSE, NY @dblizzy

  3. SO, What’s Happening?

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  7. credit: brad frost

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  9. BUT, How Do We Work Together?

  10. Etique e Means Behaving Yourself A Li le Be er

    Than Absolutely Essential. W I L L C U P P Y

  11. THE INFAMOUS Photoshop Etique e Origin Story

  12. THE HANDOFF 2010 Creative Director UI Designer Front-End Developer

  13. FRUSTRATION #1 Messy Files

  14. FRUSTRATION #2 Messy Layers

  15. FRUSTRATION #3 Missing Images

  16. FRUSTRATION #4 Missing Fonts

  17. FRUSTRATION #5 Color Overlay Abuse

  18. FRUSTRATION #6 Unrealistic Drop Shadows

  19. FRUSTRATION #7 Not Proofread

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  21. INSTEAD, I Started Writing...

  22. 40 GUIDELINES Files Layers Images Type Effects QA Exporting Design

    Practices FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY / / / / /
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  39. unsplash.com

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  44. BUT I USE Fireworks (R.I.P) BUT I USE Sketch BUT

    I Design in Browser

  45. IT’S ALL ABOUT Clarity & Intention

  46. IS THERE Code Etique e?

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  50. ABOVE ALL ELSE, Write Your Own Code

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  52. OK, BUT WHY IS ETIQUETTE Important to Me?

  53. DESIGN Professionalism

  54. BE Organized 1

  55. BE Teachable 2

  56. FIX WHAT’S Broken 3

  57. BE Nice 4

  58. There’s No Reason That You Can’t Be Good and Be

    Nice Too. A R N O L D P A L M E R

  59. Every Pixel is an Opportunity to Make a Good Decision.

  60. THANKS! @dblizzy / @psetique e