Pat’s Point of View

I’ve been doing a bit of site design lately and one thing that I’ve rediscovered (other than the value of having a good graphic designerproblem with having people who think they are designers) is how good Macromedia Fireworks is.

I only have version 4 (don’t ask) but it is just brilliant for designing web pages. You have good drawing tools, good colour and effects control, and the ability to slice it up and export individual parts. And it keeps everything as vectors and objects.

I have long been an advocate of the CSS quick-prototyping method, and it’s great in some situations, but prototyping in Fireworks is a joy, particularly for graphics intensive designs.

And that is also it’s biggest problem, since it’s so easy to create graphics laden designs that one must use caution, esspecially if you’re a standards geek :)

My efforts should be online soon.

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Patrick Kennedy is a user experience strategist and design researcher based in Sydney Australia. He leads research activities that improve the user experience of cross-channel products and services; helping both designers and business decision makers in bringing those products and services to fruition. Read more.