burnblue
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
For me, master pages and something like Illustrator Symbols ("master elements", "template elements", whatever) save vast amounts of time for complex multi-page projects.
Bonus: 1x comps are better sized for clients to view on non-retina screens anyway. I always got complaints showing giant 640px wide mockups…
Staying in Thailand for less than a year at a time is easy to do. If you want to stay on a more permanent basis you'll need to either get married (marriage visa), enroll in a Thai language school (education visa), or be over 65 and have 25 grand or so in the bank (retirement visa).
If you can wrangle something, it's a wonderful place to live. There are the well-known sights and the low cost of living, but for me it goes much deeper. I've become a calmer and more thoughtful person, quicker to smile and slower to anger just by spending two years among the Thai people.
Re: gexla's post – he makes it sound a little cavalier, but there really is a sense in Asia of "eventually this will work out somehow". There are limits and boundaries where this doesn't apply, of course, but in general I find the saying about India applies equally well to Thailand: "everything will be all right in the end. If it's not all right, it isn't the end" ;)
After years of trying various options, I find Keynote by far the fastest option for creating wireframes. But if I want to keep using it after iWork.com shuts down, I have to export all pages as .pngs and then share them online with a service like Invision or Notable, which takes a lot more time and is less convenient for the client.
To illustrate my point, one of these is Bing and one is Google: http://d.pr/i/4KA5
Does this not cross an ethical line?