Designing directly in the browser is so natural and simple for me that it’s always struck me as bizarre that so few designers do it that way — for me to do otherwise would be analogous to typing with my feet! If you know what you’re doing with HTML/CSS/jQuery, you can try a lot of different variations and fix what doesn’t work very, very quickly.
Of course the step Andy Clarke and Meagan have both left out is the fastest prototyping step: sketching on paper, I work out layouts/concepts roughly on paper after establishing the base HTML content then go straight to code.
That’s exactly what I do — a sketch on graph paper, then I hit the browser.
Dan Boland
Designing directly in the browser is so natural and simple for me that it’s always struck me as bizarre that so few designers do it that way — for me to do otherwise would be analogous to typing with my feet! If you know what you’re doing with HTML/CSS/jQuery, you can try a lot of different variations and fix what doesn’t work very, very quickly.
Of course the step Andy Clarke and Meagan have both left out is the fastest prototyping step: sketching on paper, I work out layouts/concepts roughly on paper after establishing the base HTML content then go straight to code.
That’s exactly what I do — a sketch on graph paper, then I hit the browser.