The other day I was reading through an article by my good buddy Radu Chelariau, entitled “
Analyzing In-Browser Design” over on his SickDesigner blog.
The article is a great analysis of the many benefits of actually designing websites in the browser itselfIf you haven't already read it be sure to check it out!
One of the things that I found interesting, however, was the way he continuously used the word “tradition”.
For example, when discussing the interesting relationship between working with code and creating beautiful, visual designs, Radu writes:
What In-Browser Design does, in my experience, is break that dichotomy because it reverses the traditional order of things.
By tradition, we first create a design mockup, the client gives the ok and then we start coding.
There's a lot of truth to that statement, or at the very least a lot of interesting possibilities, but the one word that really struck me, and which I have been meditating on ever since I read the article, is this notion of tradition.
Basically, what this passage is implying is that the use of Photoshop (or some other, similar, application) is the traditional way of designing websitesBy implication, of course, that also means that the process of in-browser design is somehow counter-traditional..