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Processing Assets for Static app

March 14, 2020

Working with agencies, I have found they tend to deliver assets in all kinds of different ways. Some prefer Photoshop or Illustrator (or, to my horror, Indesign). Others buck the tranditional and go for Figma or Sketch. At the end of the day, sometimes I just need a clean view of what I’m working on regardless of the tools. One long term build involved a completely static app, which meant a static background with all elements contained in a single JPG background image, with invisible “hot spot” links on top where applicable.…more

HTML Scraping to PDF

February 21, 2020

I was ordering shirts on behalf of a client and wanted to send them a color chart. Rather than send them to the corporate website where the shirts are purchased (which was login only), I thought I would use Photoshop to drag-and-drop the shirt preview images into a document and then export it to PDF. After 20 minutes of dragging and dropping, I thought there was a better way. Analyzing the Site When loading the site, tabs appear under each product.…more