no matter how good Figma is, it’s an intermediary abstraction, like Photoshop before it. If you’re working with the web, you’ll work faster without such an abstraction layer in the design process filtering the collaboration between programmer and designer.
the biggest, open secret to the productivity and viability of our two-person teams at 37signals. All our web designers work directly with the native materials of HTML, CSS, and usually even a fair bit of JavaScript and Ruby.
they should aim to become self-sufficient in wielding the tools of the trade. And treat improving their skills with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and perhaps even the backend language as a key plank in their career progression.
Leave Figma to the early conceptual stages of web design. Or put it to good use for native mobile development,
embrace doing the bulk of the design for the web directly in the core elements of its periodic table.
no matter how good Figma is, it’s an intermediary abstraction, like Photoshop before it. If you’re working with the web, you’ll work faster without such an abstraction layer in the design process filtering the collaboration between programmer and designer.
the biggest, open secret to the productivity and viability of our two-person teams at 37signals. All our web designers work directly with the native materials of HTML, CSS, and usually even a fair bit of JavaScript and Ruby.
they should aim to become self-sufficient in wielding the tools of the trade. And treat improving their skills with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and perhaps even the backend language as a key plank in their career progression.
Leave Figma to the early conceptual stages of web design. Or put it to good use for native mobile development,
embrace doing the bulk of the design for the web directly in the core elements of its periodic table.
