Fucking PSD Designers
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- inv0
Question: How many of you use keynote?
- Alright for wireframing, wouldn't do a finished design in it.animatedgif
- awebdeveloper0
How long did you spend writing that post, enjoy the fact its not an InDesign file and save your breath for blowing down houses not fire fighting print designers.
- tOki0
As an interactive art director I would agree those things are plain sloppy, perhaps a little rude.
The transparent logo one is annoying, but have you ever had to deal with clients who don't even know what that is? Half the fucking time they don't even have one and supply you a BITMAP EMBEDDED IN AN ILLUSTRATOR FILE. Don't just blindly hate on the guy who you are working with, he often has crap to deal with too.
You may find that annoying, but think about the guy who gives you his work hoping you will get it looking and functioning as per the design, to then find out it's all over the place. There is no budget or time left to do it properly because you were sloppy or worse, mismanaged your time and wasted time meaning that corners had to be cut at the end. That project potentially can no longer be considered folio worthy - and they may have spent hundreds of hours on it? They are powerless to improve the outcome, even having done nothing wrong themselves - welcome to the shitty end of working as a designer. It's a poisonous feeling where you feel all your (hard) work means nothing, and that you can't rely on your team.
Designers rely on developers to bring their work to fruition in the way developers rely on designers to give them something which is which is within scope and allows the use of new/exciting technologies (so you can learn new things and enjoy what you do). Without the designer pushing the developer, there is no innovation in the same way there is no possibility for this innovation without the developer being able to create said innovation.
So you say "Fucking PSD Designer" and that tells me how little regard you have for who should be your natural ally in an agency or team. It is mutually beneficial for both parties to work together in a flexible manner which manages and counters each others weaknesses, rather than having a rant on the qoob.
If you really can't take it, why not put together a checklist of common errors or tasks to be checked on projects so that these things can be avoided in the future? Don't just sit there having a tantrum because you didn't get things the way you wanted.
Either way, be the solution not the problem?
- i_monk0
Buying fonts? Who does that?
- Stugoo0
Send it back and ask for assets.
let the crayon jockey do the work! ;)
and then send them this http://photoshopetiquette.com/
- animatedgif0
Designing a website in Photoshop?
FUCKING LOL!
- !!Weyland
- Yeah, don't tell us, you use Indesign.pillhead
- nah that's almost worse.
I use Fireworks.animatedgif
- toe_knee0
If you want pixel perfection you have to code off a psd imo.
We have to create style guides that spell out how much spacing is between each element and they still get it wrong.
- monospaced0
I dunno about you guys, but I don't know a single developer that builds a site solely on the design file, PSD or other. They usually figure out the grid and build the rest with code n' shit, not by copying the fucking pixels. In this sense, they assure me a freakin' PDF from InDesign is good, as long as it gets the design across. I understand sending a rainman-esque immaculate PSD to a guy who has no time to bother building a site with his own brain, but is that even necessary if the developer's talented? Do you guys design sites that are built entirely from a PSD?
- doesnotexist0
funny store. kind of.
i always use smart objects (because i don't like headaches) and layer comps.
our developer comes in to meet with us and tells us 1) not to use smart objects, raster everything that's sent to him (he doesn't like big files) and 2) don't use layer comps.
i'm still trying convince him that layer comps are superior. trying to convince a developer. why.
- CyBrainX0
web licenses? naah
- sothere0
you bastards have been so unhelpful for years and you never tell us how to actually create files. You seem to love the 'oh you cant do that' after you kept us in the dark throughout the design process. Hope you have to work late.! Man that felt good.
- don't worry, they call themselves designers toomonospaced
- lobstarr0
im so nice to my developers, along with psd's an asset (contact sheet) for all the ui/common elements found within the creative including all interaction states to make cutting easy breezy.
of course i put time under 'file prep' - booya!
- oey0
LSD designers...yeah!
- akrok0
lets make it 949px wide, not 950px. lol.
- err0
At least your getting PSDs. I work at a place where some of the designers don't know Photoshop and keep giving me comps made in Indesign. (IN THE MOST RETARDED WAYS) Every page is a different size because the designer just hand drew a box on the screen.
- vaxorcist0
fireworks is a hidden obscure wonder of the web designer....