Publisher or Designer for Website UI Design?

[Diavel222]

Hello,

I'm looking to design a website mock-up design, so would Affinity Publisher or Designer be more attuned that project and why? I have both to use, but only bought Publisher a few days ago, and I don't know if the mix of Designer and Photo in that would be better or appropriate for the task.

Any guidance is appreciated!

Thanks!

[firstdefence]

Either will do for mockup design, the fact you have both aids in the creation of design elements and the editing of them and Publisher can help with placement and typography. 

[woefi]

Hello, Diavel222!

As someone who never really got into doing webdesign in a program meant for imageprocessing (aka Photoshop) and primarily used Illustrator (with major pixel quality problems), I would recommend Designer for these tasks.

Of course this has much to do, how "modern" webdesign today looks like, as in the 2000s everything needed to be "pixel-perfect" but now it must be scaleable (aka all vectorshapes, svg).

The advantage of the Affinity file format is that you can reopen any .afdesign in Publisher or Photo and do specific tasks there. I sometimes use Publisher to "link" my placed images, as Designer and Photo can only embed them, although they are fine with such publisher-saved files.

On huge point for Designer in webdesign is its powerful Export Persona, with multiple output targets and -resolutions and -formats. Be it vector or pixel.