Malte Müller
well, i'm sceptical about that InDesign thing – but if it makes sense anywhere, it may be for a project like this. still, it's not what i liked about the article.
Malte Müller
the whole "designing downward" thing – and the way they came up with good solutions for their widgets in the process. the weather widget is impressive.
kunstreich
The one remaining problem with InDesign: You cannot assign the different Adobe apps to open specific smart objects. Would be great. What do you liked about the article, the breakpoint approach?
kunstreich
(I deleted and reposted because of typos.)
Yeah, I do agree with the 960 startpoint strongly. Actually, I never understood the mobile first approach at all. Doesn’t it makes more sense to craft a solid desktop experience and just scale down from that? I mean the most important things for mobile consumption is a) make sure deeplinks to the content and b) browsing of content just works? And maybe retain as much CD/CI while scale that far desktop sucker down …
Malte Müller Ace insight on the design process behind one of the best news sites.
kunstreich Been there, done that. Someone laughed at me.
Malte Müller well, i'm sceptical about that InDesign thing – but if it makes sense anywhere, it may be for a project like this. still, it's not what i liked about the article.
Malte Müller the whole "designing downward" thing – and the way they came up with good solutions for their widgets in the process. the weather widget is impressive.
kunstreich The one remaining problem with InDesign: You cannot assign the different Adobe apps to open specific smart objects. Would be great. What do you liked about the article, the breakpoint approach?
Malte Müller whoops, looks like our comments got switched up and down, QUOTEfm.
kunstreich (I deleted and reposted because of typos.)
Yeah, I do agree with the 960 startpoint strongly. Actually, I never understood the mobile first approach at all. Doesn’t it makes more sense to craft a solid desktop experience and just scale down from that? I mean the most important things for mobile consumption is a) make sure deeplinks to the content and b) browsing of content just works? And maybe retain as much CD/CI while scale that far desktop sucker down …