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"Designing" for web/screens without a grid

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  • 14-07-2014 5:36pm
    #1
    KonFusion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 2,588 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    As I start to do more and more agency work (where agencies have outsourced code/development work to me/the company I work for), one trend I've noticed over the past few years is how a great many designers (that I've worked with) don't use grids.

    I'm not talking small print shops here. I'm talkbout about large Dublin digital/ad agencies and large international agencies.

    I'd say about 90% of the mockups/PSD's I'm given to develop have no grid, typographic or modular scale in place. Which makes me feel like:

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    Has anyone else found this is the norm when working with agencies?

    One could speculate it's because some designers are coming from a print background, and haven't up-skilled in order to design for screens.

    Do you design without a grid? - If so what's your rationale?


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    jmcc
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    Perhaps it is because some "designers" are more suited to working with crayons rather than with screen designs. A print background would generally mean that the designer would at least have a working knowledge of grids and fonts.

    I generally use grids though. Sometimes the BBC one and often ones dictated by the screen sizes of the website users.

    Regards...jmcc


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    was.deevey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭was.deevey


    I recently was working on a live site, 80% complete in terms of development, content fonts and look and feel (skeleton base theme with lots of backend crazyness going on) - entire site was CSS based with the exception of the logo and a few images and we wanted a few more images and color changes to make it all "pop"

    Had a "designer" that refused to do the work necessary to bring it live e.g. new slider images / buttons / search boxes etc.. because there was no original PSD to work from and he could not understand how the site would be running to the stage it was already at without having a PSD to work from :-o

    Lazy git.


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