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Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
3,016 Points
Posted by Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
3,016 Points

What is the benefit of "Adobe Illustrator for Web Design" for someone who is learning front end web development?

So I was checking out a course here on treehouse called Adobe Illustrator for Web Design, and it seemed very intriguing, how could something like this benefit a web develper? Now obviously one of the benefits is that illustrator is a great tool for web page mock-ups, but I also saw this feature that it had called css properties? What does that mean? You don't have to write any css for your html? Just use the css properties from your mock-up and paste it into your css file? I like writing css but I'm just confused on illustrator css properties.

2 Answers

Mathieu St-Vincent
Mathieu St-Vincent
9,244 Points
Mathieu St-Vincent
Mathieu St-Vincent
9,244 Points

This would be replaced with Adobe XD, if you want to stay in the Adobe family.

Personal experience, you should take a look into Figma. You can code CSS, collaborate in real time (I mean like co-op in real time, it's awesome!!) and can be used for free.

Also, a popular variant would be Sketch.

Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
3,016 Points
Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
3,016 Points

I looked into Figma, seems really cool! Is there a Figma course on treehouse? :)

Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
3,016 Points
Luqman Shah
Luqman Shah
3,016 Points

Awesome!! Thanks! Btw is figma only for mobile viewport prototyping? Because all the samples and videos that I've seen about figma seems like it's only for mobile web pages.

Mathieu St-Vincent
Mathieu St-Vincent
9,244 Points
Mathieu St-Vincent
Mathieu St-Vincent
9,244 Points

It's awesome for mobile prototyping, but it serves to any interface design with high reusability of components and quick exports.

I've collaborated with designers working on Figma on a couple desktop to mobile responsive designs.