AjaxWorld — "Not Just Perfect, Pixel Perfect: Establishing your Design to Development Workflow" by Aaron Adams & Karl Johnson
Posted by sharpstyle on March 20, 2007
Presentation by Cynergy Systems (Flex partner). Session description is here.
Mostly develop Flex applications. Aaron Adams is graphic designer and Karl Johnson is a developer and they both did a good job presenting the challenges and their current solution.
Main message: make sure that your graphic designer understands the capability of the technology he/she is designing it for and what it is capable of. This will ensure that developers do not spend too much time designing extravagant designs. In case of Cynergy Systems, technology is Flex.
They went through the following evolution steps:
- Just throwing designs over to developers
- Designer learning MXML/Flex capabilities and actually coding
- Current state: designer understands what technology can offer (in case of Flex: stylesheets, dynamic filters, etc) and designs taking these features into consideration
A few other notes:
- Graphic Designer is not enough anymore, you need User Experience Designer/Specialist
- On Cynergy projects, “design” part of the project is from 10% to 20% of the whole project.
~Mike
