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  • The Perfect Case Study

    I love detailed case studies like this. I especially like the way Softfacade demonstrate their process, as in the screenshot below.

  • Sacha Grief on not wireframing:

    I start straight in Photoshop. I work fairly quickly, so I know I can produce a decent first draft in a couple days.

    And that first high-definition mockup will be much more useful than a black-and-white wireframe to make design decisions.

    Basically, the only way to really judge a design is to use a live prototype. The further away you get from that the less accurate your insights will be.

    So for me, Photoshop mockups are a nice middle-ground between accuracy and speed of execution, while wireframes aren’t that much faster to produce while being vastly less representative of the final product.

    I completely agree with Sacha. A few weeks ago, we started the process of planning a iPhone app and instead of wireframing the app, I quickly mocked up a design. Immediately my ideas came to life and was much easier to demonstrate and explain to others as it was much more familiar to them than a wireframe would ever be.

  • Photoshop Quick tips

    A good set of quick Photoshop tips by Kamil Khadeyev.

    I’ve been using the exact same custom shortcuts for Copy Layer Style (cmd+ctrl+c) and Paste Layer Style (cmd+ctrl+v) for years now and it is easily the biggest productive.

  • Can I Use…

    I’ve been using caniuse.com as a reference for what HTML5 and CSS features are supported in which browsers (and which versions). It really is an excellent resource.

  • Adobe’s New Campus

    Looks pretty amazing. I hope they’re going to throw everything Flash related into that fire.

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