But First, Some History Edge Reflow is a relatively new program from Adobe, having been announced in 2012 and released in February 2013, with the elevator pitch of enabling you to "Design the responsive web" and "Create beautiful responsive designs". The tricky part is that right now you can't actually use it directly to create responsive websites , only responsive designs . This means you can open up Reflow and use its visual design interface to create fully functioning design prototypes, with color schemes, layouts, form elements, links and text content in place. You can preview your design both within the tool and in Chrome, and you can set breakpoints, make your design responsive then preview it for mobile through Adobe's Edge Inspect tool. However, at the moment that's as far as you can get. You're as yet unable to go ahead and export your design as an actual website. There is no direct control over the HTML and CSS that makes up the design, and Adobe make it very clear that the code output for previews should be considered just that; preview code and not of production quality. So, after going through the process of designing your site in Reflow, you have to put it together a second time in order to create code that a live site can use. For some designers this is just fine; creating a functional prototype which clients can green light is an integral part of their process
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