Web designers who know how to code.<p>I've heard a number of reasons for skipping Photoshop and jumping straight to HTML/CSS (e.g. it saves a lot of time). What are the reasons for using Photoshop first?
I'm a designer who knows how to code (or more accurately: a coder who knows how to design).<p>When I am mocking and laying things out, it's much faster to use Photoshop because it's easier to just drag objects around instead of tweaking CSS properties (at this point I'm mostly just dragging around and resizing vectors/shapes/photos/text to get them in the right size/position).<p>After I'm pretty satisfied with the layout I will go into vim or Sublime Text and start hammering out the actual design in CSS. I find tweaking CSS properties and refreshing my browser to be at least as productive as editing layer styles in Photoshop (if not more productive). Features of CSS like gradients, borders, opacity, shadows, etc. actually make it a very reasonable environment for quickly iterating on designs (especially when paired with SASS/Compass or LESS). Plus it saves you a step (it's gonna need to be coded sometime anyway...). YMMV
I'm a artist/designer/developer (artist/designer who works as developer from time to time (it this year, mostly as developer)).<p>I think this is only about how much fast you able to translate you brain ideas to images. PS currently is a most faster way to do this (in some cases 'pencil&parer' will be more effective way ).<p>For example:
imagine randomly curved line which is drew by child;
how is way more fastest to copy it?
1) draw it's copy on different papper with pencil by your hands
2) generate it's copy by math formula.<p>Also, in some cases make design with HTML/CSS can be most effective way if the 'design idea' has good fit to html "visual language" (because this way is enough fast to make design by this way and it cut off psd2html part of work) (for example site with 'flat' design like HN).
A really good designer might even start with a scrap of paper or a whiteboard if one is available. The reality is that what's needed is a WYSIWYG tool for HTML/CSS authoring and quite frankly it's pathetic that there isn't a great one out there. Writing HTML by hand is like the old world of specing type for a typesetter instead of using a desktop publishing program. Something coders don't get sometimes is that designers need visual design tools, not a typewriter.
Photoshop is easier to design in because you can change everything around without having to recode it. There are less steps and some of the best designers, for better or worse, can only design in photoshop, so it's better to have them design it and then have someone translate it.
I'm a front dev who does design though I often wonder if my designs are any good.<p>I was going to do a Ask HN about a recent design as Im wondering if my design provides a solid explanation of what of the app does.<p>Anyone interested in critiquing & providing feedback?
With photoshop you can design free style and are not limited by HTML and browser limitations. Layers transparencies masking and GUI wysiwyg tools make it easier for creative people