Friday at 12:00am I started working to develop the visual style that would become our app for the Railsrumble.
Sunday at 12:25am I got to sleep after working with Jared to build a complete Rails application and deploy it in just 48 hours.
It was an incredibly exciting, frustrating, and satisfying experience as a designer. What starts out as just sketches on paper becomes rough wireframes and then fully fleshed out graphic designs. I’ll be writing a bit more about my process in the next few days as I review Rails Rumble from a designer’s perspective, but suffice it to say that Rails is EASILY the most designer-friendly web programming framework to which I’ve been exposed.
My CSS file checked in at very close to 700 lines of CSS. Now I like my white-space, but there isn’t that much fluff inside the CSS file. This project really pushed my capabilities and forced me to focus on understanding the relationships between all the elements on the page in a way that I’ve not normally had to consider them.
I’ve gained a whole new appreciation for display:block and also span elements! I had a great time working on our application and look forward to seeing what other teams have put together.
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