Jon Hicks on his love/hate relationship with Fireworks.
Now I didn’t use Fireworks until I started a job where we used it about 2 years ago, but now I’ve got used to it I really have no idea how people can do screen design in Photoshop all day, its clunky as fuck for web design even with its vector tools and smart objects.
Don’t get me wrong its awesome for Photo manipulation and art working, but for laying out websites with forms, buttons etc its a complete nightmare. Oh and thats even when working with tidy designers, work with someone who can’t name layers and its a fucking nightmare. Most Photoshop users never realise this though because Fireworks seems so clunky at first glance that you only ever learn how to use it if your boss basically forces you into it because he can’t use Photoshop.
Basically Fireworks could be a game changer, it just needs a sensible rewrite by a talented team, needs to stop pretending to be some developer tool for mocking up AIR integrated RIA buzzword drenched shit. I mean really Adobe couldn’t you have invested all the money you wasted on garbage like Photoshop.com, Adobe TV, Adobe Drive, and all that other nonsense and just invested some money in fixing Fireworks’ problems.
tl;dr: Fireworks is a buggy, clunky mess but its still better at doing my job than Photoshop
