Rethinking Photoshop Design with UX first: Should we develop straight from wireframes and do PSDs last?

[Thomas Tucker]

Do We Need Photoshop to Create Web Products Anymore? 

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A recent movement called NoPSD is making some compelling arguments about why, in modern web development and User Experience planning, we continue to use so much Photoshop or other similar Adobe products. 

Here's the basic premise. 

If wire-framing is a valuable process. 
If User Experience is a scientifically based and measurable process. 
If good UX adapts wire-frames into optimized layouts. 
If story-boarding connects these layouts into optimized application behavior. 

then 

If most "styling" done in web products is done using CSS and HTML. 
If layouts can be made using css frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap and other responsive grids. 
If colors, branding, and highlights can come later. 

Why are we still doing full Photoshop pixel perfect layouts of all of our UI's? 

There are many arguments for the use of Photoshop and it still has it's place, but what if we could make it more agile, more part of the developing process? 

What if we had Asynchronous Photoshop Design? 

Let's discuss! Bring your thoughts and concerns about the approach of high-fidelity designs as part of the UX process! Bring your friends! Let's battle it out! 

All issues are on the table as we fire off this new UX SIG discussion. We strongly encourage UX and UI developers to attend as things may get a little technical at times, but all are welcome to the discussion. 

Here are some articles to get the thoughts started. 

http://thoughtworks.github.io/p2/issue02/continuous-design.html 
https://medium.com/designing-startups/148c9bbc7404 

This event will be hosted by the generous team at Indeed.com! You can find directions to this UX SIG by visiting their site here. http://go.indeed.com/directions

Speaker: Thomas Tucker & Todd Ballard

Thomas Tucker & Todd Ballard are both UI developers for Hoover's Inc. and have been working in design, UX, and UI implementation for over a decade. 

UX SIG Info:

• More information and communication may be found at the SIG's Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/agile-austin-ux-sig.
• Food and Drink will be provided courtesy of Agile Austin.

Directions and Parking Info:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2460800/indeed/directions.html

Seating is limited!

Please make sure that you are able to attend this session. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. We want to give everyone the opportunity to attend, so please only sign up if you are committed to attending.

For more information/questions, please send email to: ux...@agileaustin.org.

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[Thomas Tucker]

Thursday, July 18, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (COT) Austin, TX at Indeed 

[Thomas Tucker]

Thanks to everyone who attended today's SIG! 

If you didn't get a chance to attend, you can watch MOST of the UX SIG here on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIFH8a3Za9M. 

We're going to get better at broadcasting these lives via Google Hangouts and having them archived on YouTube moving forward. Stay tuned for more information!