The problem with religion like this is inflexibility.
The takeaway should be, "get to a functional prototype ASAP and don't sweat pixel level perfection if you use it", but eschewing Photoshop is not always the right path for design iteration.
The question designers should ask is "what is the most productive way to iterate/experiment with this design?" Oftentimes, it's in code. Sometimes it's in Photoshop. Hell, sometimes I take a screenshot of a working app and fiddle with it in Photoshop.
And statements like, "Photoshop gives you too many tools to focus on the details. When you use Photoshop you can’t help but pay attention to the details." piss me off about as much as statements from their previous posts like, "People who are workaholics are likely to attempt to fix problems by throwing sheer hours at the problem."
Just because people CAN do something (focus on details or work inefficiently because they are throwing hours at the problem) don't mean that the DO.
The takeaway should be, "get to a functional prototype ASAP and don't sweat pixel level perfection if you use it", but eschewing Photoshop is not always the right path for design iteration.
The question designers should ask is "what is the most productive way to iterate/experiment with this design?" Oftentimes, it's in code. Sometimes it's in Photoshop. Hell, sometimes I take a screenshot of a working app and fiddle with it in Photoshop.
And statements like, "Photoshop gives you too many tools to focus on the details. When you use Photoshop you can’t help but pay attention to the details." piss me off about as much as statements from their previous posts like, "People who are workaholics are likely to attempt to fix problems by throwing sheer hours at the problem."
Just because people CAN do something (focus on details or work inefficiently because they are throwing hours at the problem) don't mean that the DO.