Whatever business you’re in, productivity can make or break not only your profit but also your morale. In (web)design we’re constantly looking for little productivity boosts. One thing that has proven itself to be a huge productivity boost for us, is assigning keyboard shortcuts to frequently used functions in Photoshop.
In our new portfolio you’ll find lots of scaled down UI elements. We chose to work with scaled down UI elements for various reasons. For instance; we think it allows us to let the visitor get drawn to that specific element e.g. when the original size is just too big to fit a small resolution screen. We wanted to share a couple of things we’ve learned through trial and error that could save you some time scaling down your own UI elements. In these cases we assume that you’ll be scaling your UI element down to about 50% of the original element in Photoshop.
Dutch designer Jonno Riekwel once tweeted a great tip for working in Photoshop regarding designing detailed UI elements. He pointed out the option to open one Photoshop document and displaying it in multiple separate windows. This means you can align multiple windows next to each other (or above/beneath one another for that matter).
