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by nathanbarry 4840 days ago
There is always a debate about how best to move from idea to finished product. This is just my method. Would love to hear yours.

Ryan Singer (37signals) actually jumps straight from sketch to code, but then takes screenshots and brings them into Photoshop when he needs to work on more details.

Find a process that works for you.

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I start as you do - paper first ;)

Sometimes I start even simpler than your initial sketches and just think about the things I want on each page and how much emphasis I want to spend on them - using little bar charts (http://adrianh.posterous.com/little-bar-charts-to-show-page-...)

From the looks of it I stay on paper a bit longer than you do. I find I can iterate on paper, and do paper prototyping, faster than I can mess with Photoshop or Balsamiq.

From there I usually jump straight to code (I come from a dev background and I find I'm more productive there than I am with tools like Axure).