It may have taken over a decade, but they now seem to understand that our feeble minds are actually capable of grasping this web dev stuff (who knew?). Their tools should allow them to author with these things more easily, but not by hiding what is really going on.” They understand and want to manipulate the box model and media queries. They go even further with the following statement, which really hits home for me: “Web designers want to see CSS, HTML and JavaScript. The more we learn about the behaviour of the web, the more useable our designs can become.“Our mission: move the web forward and give web designers and developers the best tools and services in the world.” We must be encouraged to think: what happens when this title or stand first increases in size, what happens when it spans onto two or three lines, does the words get cut off, does the content below push down below the page fold?Įdge Reflow encourages us to think two or three steps down the road, and start thinking about design with the rules and restrictions of the web in mind. It changes the way we think and perceive design for web.
For a designer, this means instant feedback on the feasibility of the project's responsiveness.
‘Edge Inspect’ is an app that can be downloaded to tablet and mobile devices allowing changes to be made in real-time to Edge Reflow and refreshing on the corresponding device. DemonstrationĮdge reflow is a great way to demonstrate to clients how a design will change across the relevant devices needed and clients can physically resize layouts, watching the web’s behaviour change their designs, providing a sense of realism to any project. What does this mean? Rather than create 100 separate PSD files, Reflow combines elements together to create templates than can be hot spotted, essentially transforming the idea of a static design into a fully working, visual and responsive prototype. Multiple pages and templates can link to one another. Those same assets can be re-used and re-sized across the breakpoints, keeping the file size of the project to a minimum. If a developer and a designer are both working together on a project, there is no need to exchange a new set of assets. If Photoshop CC is installed, it is possible to connect Edge Reflow and Photoshop together allowing changes to be made to a PSD file and updates automatically applied to the corresponding content in the Reflow project. Pushing and pulling content directly from Photoshop allows the user to design and build on-the-fly. As the designer starts building the elements of the page up one-by-one, those same elements automatically resize themselves for each breakpoint defined and can be manually edited. Setting this criteria up using Edge Reflow’s ‘Responsive Rulers’ allows a set of parameters that creates hidden multiple canvases. Most commonly, these are a large desktop, small desktop, tablet and mobile dimensions, but more can be added and changed as the design develops. The first port of call is to setup the page with the screen sizes needed. There are a number of ways to start a responsive design in Edge Reflow. Reflow provides a web-friendly fail-safe to any design, ensuring that what is created, has an output that is technically feasible.
#Edge reflow vs muse code#
For example, a lot of its behaviour follows absolute or relative positioning, z-indexes, and code based terminology that Photoshop just doesn’t address. Moving elements around in Reflow is restricted and governed by the rules of the web, primarily HTML and CSS.
#Edge reflow vs muse series#
Layouts are made up of a series of links, which can be populated directly through Photoshop and adjusted with web-based rules and restrictions. Edge Reflow works a lot like Adobe InDesign.
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