| This article should be titled "the slice tool is dead." The slice tool represents the direct transformation of raster image to website. We all know that this isn't possible anymore because of mobile, retina, etc. But Photoshop and image editors still provide tremendous value to the web development process for mockups, image assets, colors, etc. What this article is trying to say is that the process of turning a design into a website has become much more difficult. A PSD is no longer a final deliverable but the beginning of a conversation. Now design needs to be functional. Instead of taking the static image you get from a PSD, you need to ask "What does this look like on mobile? What about huge resolutions? What if we don't have that content?" The article suggests that this process will be improved by designing in the browser thanks to CSS3. The truth is that the browser has just barely hit the minimum requirements to be able to make design decisions. Have you seen the Chrome color picker? It's alright for choosing a border color but final design work can not be done entirely in the browser just yet. |
I don't really care about having a nice color picker when punching in a value into Less is so easy (and if I really want something visual I use either http://colourco.de or http://colorschemedesigner.com/ . I don't care about shapes because I'm working in the grid. I get what I need, faster and cleaner, than screwing around in Photoshop.