Designing in code
Inspiration struck over the weekend for a wee web app to make life a big easier in a small way in the office. Going to thrash out the technical details tomorrow, hopefully, and then have a prototype up and running ASAP.
But this evening I’ve been working on the UI. I’ve got something going that I’m really happy with. And the closest I came to opening any kind of graphics software was resizing a couple of user avatar placeholders in Preview. Everything else was done in HTML and CSS, straight into the browser. I’ve never really got used to doing mockups in Photoshop or whatever. I don’t have the patience for it, and it’s not really my medium anyway. But cracking a tricky little layout problem by thinking laterally about how to style a span? Dynamite.
Now it feels like 2010.