The New Photoshop, Part 2: The Revenge of the Web (FEC13)

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1. Revenge THE NEW PHOTOSHOP, PART 2 Web STEPHEN HAY FRONTENDCONF

   2013 ZURICH of the the

2. PSD

3. PSD PRETTY SHITTY DELIVERABLE

4. web-based mockup HTML, CSS, ?

5. PSD ON A SMALL SCREEN

6. web-based mockup ON A SMALL SCREEN

7. a responsive design workflow

8. a responsive design workflow 1. Content inventory 2. Content reference

   wireframes 3. Designing in text 4. Linear design 5. Breakpoint graphing 6. Designing for breakpoints 7. Web-based mockup 8. Presenting as screenshots > revise 9. Presenting in browsers > revise 10. Design guidelines / style guide

9. Image-based mockups are

10. Image-based mockups are SORRY TO BE THE BEARER OF BAD

    NEWS.

11. Our design comps are a carryover from print.

12. http://harryborgmanart.blogspot.ch/

13. http://harryborgmanart.blogspot.ch/

14. http://harryborgmanart.blogspot.ch/

15. DESIGNER MEDIUM

16. DESIGNER MEDIUM fashion furniture/interior architecture print web I MADE THIS

    UP. BUT STILL.

17. There is nothing wrong with Photoshop.

18. WTF psdisasters.com

19. er…

20. why? web-based mockups…

21. Managing more than 200 PSD files is not only tedious,

    but it can produce minor discrepancies between comps of the same page at different breakpoints. – appendTo ON THE TIME.COM REDESIGN http://appendto.com/case-study/responsive-design-time-com

22. Managing more than 200 PSD files is not only tedious,

    but it can produce minor discrepancies between comps of the same page at different breakpoints. – appendTo ON THE TIME.COM REDESIGN x < 200 THAT’S WHY

23. Web-based mockups more effectively represent the end result in the

    browser

24. Web-based mockups more effectively represent the end result in the

    browser because they are already in the browser. DOH!

25. flickr.com/photos/uggboy/4098274795/ Client sees this.

26. flickr.com/photos/boanerges/70312998/ Client gets this.

27. Design revisions can be a nightmare. Get rid of this

    Make logo this big Put some Lorem Ipsum here and we’ll tackle it in a future iteration. Search bar looks great!

28. Design revisions can be a nightmare. Get rid of this

    Make logo this big Put some Lorem Ipsum here and we’ll tackle it in a future iteration. Search bar looks great! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT ON 3 MOCKUPS PER SCREEN

29. experimentation

30. experimentation win.

31. version control.

32. version control.

33. how? web-based mockups…

34. sketch. first,

35. sketch. first,

36. sketch. first, SKETCHING IS WHERE DESIGN HAPPENS SKETCHING IS VISUAL

    THINKING IT’S THE HARD PART. THE REST IS EXECUTION

37. get and use representative content.

38. get and use representative content. WITHOUT IT, YOU’RE DESIGNING BLIND

    DESIGN WITHOUT CONTENT IS EITHER ART OR DECORATION AND I’M PRETTY SURE IT’S NOT ART

39. http://harryborgmanart.blogspot.ch/

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    congue quis, odio. Donec lobortis, elit bibendum euismod faucibus, velit nibh egestas libero, vitae pellentesque elit augue ut massa. Nulla consequat erat at massa. Vivamus id.

41. when it should be this Enim urna Pharetra suscipit, varius

    et, congue quis, odio. Donec lobortis, elit bibendum euismod faucibus • Velit nibh egestas libero • Vitae pellentesque elit augue ut massa. Nulla consequat erat at massa. Vivamus id…

42. You have to know what your content is— or is

    going to be—in order to deal with it appropriately.

43. You have to know what your content is— or is

    going to be—in order to deal with it appropriately. WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONTENT?

44. these things can help with speed LAYOUT/GRID HELPERS STATIC SITE

    GENERATORS CSS PREPROCESSORS

45. Optionally, your mockup could become the base for front-end production.

46. Optionally, your mockup could become the base for front-end production.

    THOUGH IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE. RELAX.

47. static site generators FOR EXAMPLE: JEKYLL, HYDE, NANOC, DEXY THESE

    PROVIDE WAYS OF SAYING: setup mymockup serve mymockup

48. Jekyll FOR EXAMPLE http://jekyllrb.com/

49. Jekyll FOR EXAMPLE ~ $ gem install jekyll ~ $

    jekyll new mymockup ~ $ cd mymockup ~/mymockup $ jekyll serve AVAILABLE AT LOCALHOST:4000

50. Dexy FOR EXAMPLE http://dexy.it/

51. Dexy FOR EXAMPLE ~ $ dexy gen --t [template] --d

    [directory] ~ $ cd mymockup ~/mymockup $ dexy ~/mymockup $ dexy serve AVAILABLE AT LOCALHOST:8085
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53. Hi, mom.

54. layout/grid helpers FOR EXAMPLE: SUSY, CSS, YOUR OWN THESE PROVIDE

    WAYS OF QUICKLY POSITIONING ELEMENTS TO AN UNDERLYING GRID

55. Susy FOR EXAMPLE http://susy.oddbird.net/

56. CSS FOR EXAMPLE http://w3.org/Style/CSS Flexbox Grid layout (Grid) Template layout

    http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/ http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-template/

57. CSS preprocessors FOR EXAMPLE: SASS, LESS PROVIDE VARIABLES, MIXINS, &

    MUCH MORE

58. THE TOOL RULE It’s not about the tools.

59. THE TOOL RULE It’s not about the tools. It’s about

    the results.

60. do what can you with web-based mockups once you have

    them?

61. present them

62. present them TO CLIENTS, DEVELOPERS, BASICALLY ANYONE

63. automated screenshots VISUAL ARCHIVE OF THE ITERATION PROCESS ~ $

    casperjs screenshots.js
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67. live demos ON ACTUAL DEVICES

68. [usability] testing ON ACTUAL DEVICES

69. use them as a base for a style guide

70. use them as a base for a style guide STYLE

    GUIDES ARE THE NEW PHOTOSHOP slideshare.net/stephenhay/style-guides-are-the-new-photoshop-fronteers-2012

71. To create web-based mockups, you will need some knowledge of

    the medium for which you are designing. WEB TECH IS SIMPLY ANOTHER TOOLSET. NO NEED TO BE AFRAID.

72. Forget the useless “should designers code” debate.

73. This is about looking outside your comfort zone (and even

    your field) for inspiration… how can you do things more effectively?

74. You don’t have to learn to code. But learning a

    new approach might benefit you in some way.

75. more web-based mockups are than a pretty picture.

76. more web-based mockups are than a pretty picture. CONSIDER THEM!

77. have fun keep learning THANK YOU! @stephenhay