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Vent: Someone told me to use auto layout for everything and I should have listened sooner
A senior designer at a meetup in Austin last spring said I needed to switch my whole workflow over to auto layout. I ignored him for 6 months and kept manually adjusting frames for a 40-page app redesign. Now I'm redoing the whole thing because the developer kept asking why spacing was all over the place. Has anyone else fought off auto layout this long before giving in?
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amy30215h ago
Oh man, are you me? I wasted two months fixing spacing on a dashboard before I finally caved and learned auto layout.
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jordangibson14h ago
Man that 2 months thing is rough, I feel you. But I actually think auto layout is overhyped for simple dashboards. I spent 3 weeks learning it for a project in Portland and ended up ditching it halfway through because the constraints kept breaking on different screen sizes. The spacing fix became a bigger mess than before. Sometimes old school math and manual frames just work better for small projects where you control every pixel. I respect the grind, but Ive seen people waste more time fighting auto layout than they ever saved by using it.
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