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Beautiful, functional design. Intuitive mobile applications. Rock solid web development. These are the things we do at Intridea. Our engineers are Agile practitioners and our designers live and breathe User Experience. Companies come to us for a wide variety of needs, but our work typically falls into the following areas:
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Prototyping with Compass and Serve
For prototyping a new webapp, I like to get an HTML prototype on screen as fast as possible. There are a number of ways to achieve this, ranging from the heavyweight Rails, to the lightweight Sinatra. But even a barebones Sinatra app requires you to specify routes and layouts. When I'm focused on sketching out the markup structure and design, what I'm looking for is less distractions from setup. Theoretically, one could prototype everything with raw static HTML, but most designs usually share layouts and snippets that would be a pain to copy and paste between different files. Writing raw CSS is also possible, but once you've gotten a taste of Sass and Compass extensions, why would you want to? In this post I'll outline my bottoms up approach to getting a site design bootstrapped. I'll also cover how to get these prototypes up in a public area for feedback, and how these prototypes can be used as scaffolding alongside your development. Continue reading
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