![]() There is a new crop of “responsive design tools” on the market now as well. This can be a fantastic way to iterate on design ideas in a collaborative setting, and it’s an indispensable part of our process. We do this quite a bit at Sparkbox, and I often find myself taking pictures of whiteboards to save these ideas with the rest of the project files. These newer static design tools tend to cost less than $100 and brag about their “non-bloated” feature sets.Īlso, most designers still rely on paper and pencil (or whiteboard and dry-erase marker) to quickly convey their ideas. Acorn, Pixelmator, and Sketch are just a few. However, there are also a whole crop of new design tools that cost (and do) less than the suite from Adobe. There are always the standards: PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign. It’s really no wonder: people have been doing this for a long time-this is comfortable-and change is hard. ![]() Static Design ToolsĪs I’ve had opportunity to ask people what tools they use to solve design problems, mostly the answer I get back is a static design tool. The bulk of the work of design is done here, so we need to carefully evaluate the tools we’re using to solve design problems. This quote from Jeffrey Veen sums it up nicely-“good design is problem solving.” If you’re a designer, you know how true this is. ![]() I’ve been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Missed part one? Read part one of the article here. Originally published on Sparkbox in Sept 2013. ![]()
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