If you are a designer working with us on a project, there are a few simple guidelines you should follow to help things run smoothly.
We prefer to receive design files in Photoshop's .psd format.
Iconography should be sent to us in .ai. If that isn't possible than please use the .svg format.
Designs should not exceed 1920-2000px for the whole page and 1200-1400px for the content to achieve good fit on laptops.
Mobile should scale down to fit in 320px (iPhone 5). We recommend following this standard breakpoint grid:
Small: 320-639px
Medium: 640px
Large: 1024px
XLarge: 1200px
XXLarge: 1440px
The most important thing, in a word, is compression. To reduce load times please use only as many pixels as are necessary. Images should be heavily optimised. JPEG is preferred to PNG.
Check out Dan Barber's great guide to image optimisation for detailed best practice.
A simple design style guide for the app is optional but useful. It makes our lives easier to have a guide with text elements and title standards defined for use across the whole app.
We use Invision to show designs to clients. This means we need a .jpg version of anything requiring client sign-off.
If you hit a wall or have a question please drop us a line. While some projects have narrow briefs, we often have leeway for great ideas so don't be shy.