[IxDA Discuss] Illustrator vs Fireworks

[Todd Warfel]

Illustrator is first and foremost a print tool. A real shame  
actually, as I don't think Adobe realizes that people are using it to  
do IA work, or they simply don't care.

We do all most of our artifacts using Illustrator and InDesign. Part  
of it is a comfort thing. Part of it is that it's a real drawing  
tool, something that's important to us when doing our artifacts. I'd  
much rather have a pen (Illustrator) than a crayon (Visio) when doing  
the work we do.

Illustrator does have a high learning curve, however, and w/o multi- 
page support and master pages, we have to piece together a solution  
using InDesign and Illustrator. So, that part stinks.

CS is a major improvement over 9. Hey, they finally even have native  
support for underlining text!

On Aug 8, 2006, at 7:46 AM, jackbellis wrote:

> The Adobe toolset (all around) continues to strike me as WordPerfect
> redux... a relic of a "print"-centric company that has been at the  
> top of
> the heap, but cannot possibly prevail were it not for buying out  
> the better
> software designers. That's what I'm trying to resolve.
>
> Someone please tell me its new version erases all these problems?  
> (I don't
> need any recommendations on icon editors, but thanks for those.)


Cheers!

Todd R. Warfel
Partner, Design & Usability Specialist
Messagefirst | designing and usability consulting
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