I think you may have made an assumption here. How does involving a mockup tool mean that the process "from idea to execution", that you mention, isn't followed, and how does it mean that design is thrown over the fence?
I definitely agree that involving design at an early stage is the way to go. In my current project we have an early design for some things, and are using Balsamiq in others, and it forms a good loop between the design company, the customer, and dev.. On Nov 24, 12:46 pm, Tim Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/11/2010, at 12:13 PM, Nicholas Faiz wrote: > > > Using mockup tools like Balsamiq help a great deal, especially if your > > customer is happy to use it to help visualize the application you're > > building. The designer can also work from that too, but the customer > > understands that the rougher looking app is modelled off a prototype. > > It can increase confidence while waiting for the final design to be > > implemented. > > > There isn't a lot of work when refactoring a HTML design into Rails > > helpers, etc.. I just make sure I *don't* use HAML for such projects > > (I generally don't use HAML anyway), because it's foolish to rewrite > > all of your HTML files into another format. > > Great design is a process that goes all the way from idea to execution and > back again, whether it's code or UI. Having HTML thrown over the fence isn't > a process I'd recommend for Rails dev, I've been on a project or two like > that and the end result was always terrible. > > To the original question… > > On 24/11/2010, at 11:07 AM, dnagir wrote: > > > I am just wondering how you guys deal with working from having UI > > design to the actual Rails implementation? > > (e.g.: 37signals - Interface First) > > 37signals have a designer working and collaborating on each team during > build, not just at the start handing over photoshops or HTML. > > Don't think interface *first* development, think interface *driven* > development. > > – tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
