I’m not saying that every website should begin life in the browser, but as websites now need to be more adaptable than ever, it seems to make more sense to take this route. Designing in Photoshop (or a similar application) can have benefits, which I’ll look at later, but it can also have its drawbacks. Let’s take a look at some of these.
- Designs in Photoshop are fixed width.
- User experience can’t be demonstrated.
- Work gets repeated.
- Can be time consuming.
- Not an exact representation of how the final design will look.