Stephen Korecky

So lately I have been trying to mockup some ideas for a new part of the admin section of a project I’m working on. As a designer, part of your job is to create an easy to understand user experience. I spent a lot of time thinking of new ways to solve problems we had throughout the site. One of these problems was tags.

Lately I have been working on a new desktop application for the Mac called “Snippet”. I don’t want to talk about the app itself but the experience of making the app. As many or some of you may know. I’m a designer, I create websites, write awesome HTML and CSS and occasionally create printed material. I say this because I am not a programmer. I would love to learn more on programming and a language like Ruby or Cocoa, however for this app I wanted to work with someone who knew what they were doing.

So a while ago I read a post by 37signals called "Why we skip Photoshop” and since then I never truly understood why not to use photoshop. I’ve learned a few things, and I have tried a few things. I have come up with this. Photoshop is a great tool, if your working on a new design or site, I think Photoshop is a great way to show what your thinking in terms of design not functionality. I think this is partly what 37signals is talking about. You truly don’t understand how something works until you try it.