: What is the "best way" of converting a design into a working application? NOTE: I'm perfectly aware that this can be subjective, but I think it's a very common task and any advice is potentially

@Si6392903

Interesting question, and it is an oportunity to debunk the use of Photoshop.

Yeap, Photoshop sucks at exporting elements. Almost all graphic designer's tools does. Either use tables or use absolute positioned divs or use an irrational ammount of classes and id.


What is an effective approach used by a graphic design when working with a dev team?


The real answer is inside the question. Working as a team with a dev team, so ask them!

As a lone ranger designer is easy to think that you can make a cool design, and then someone will solve the problems you proposed. Yeap sometimes designers propose things that are not optimal.

The designers can think that their photoshop file is pixel perfect. But the nature of a web design is totally diferent of a print design.

A printed design is delivered as a final form, so all you did or did not is delivered as is.

On web the things that you deliver are the instructions on how the clients computer should re-create based on the instructions you provided.

This part is where a web developer comes into play. How to optimize the instructions so the result is re-created as exact as possible as planned.



So the answer could be depends.

For example, if the dev team is using a framework, for example bootstrap, as a designer could base the design on how the bootstrap looks like. then the design is implemented fast.

The same if you are adapting for example some template for a CMS.

This are two cases where the designer needs to know the tools the other developers are using.

Then you probably have a low resolution mockup on Photoshop, but at the end the elements need to be provided on a more specific form, image size, logo format, etc.



If you have the case where the developers are not working close to you, you can just deliver the psd file and they will take whatever they need, hopefully they will stay in touch with you to ask aditional material.

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