As a creative director that needs to effectively communicate intent to both developers AND designers, I'll offer my rationale for using Muse in a professional capacity. My designers and I have limited coding experience, so being able to QUICKLY brainstorm functions and general aesthetics of a client's site internally is very important. I use Muse with my designers to build a functioning mock-up, while my developers hand code the site based on those specifications. For me, Muse is for creating the scale model, an application like Dreamweaver is for constructing the actual building. (For what it's worth, my developers refuse to use any WYSIWYG program, they are hand-coders all the way and prefer Coda or Atom to build sites. Masochists, but perfectionists to say the least.) So, as an internal visualization tool, Muse excels at quickly creating functional test sites, but in the end is never used to develop the final product for client work or more robust sites where clean code and editing capabilities are key.
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