You've inspired me to learn designing (I did take a look at your dribbble shots :) pretty good for a web dev).
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#22This might be off topic but I feel that it is much easier for a designer to learn coding than for a developer to learn design. Anyone shares this feeling?
The things I see all the time are "learn to program" tutorials that go through in a very formulaic way and explain programing. I haven't seen any such things for design (and would love to).
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#23I don't agree with you. I'm a developer and I can't design. After designing many frontends I have come to this conclusion. I'm just not good at it. It takes me ages to get anything done, I have very little original ideas of how to make a page more functional, or even pretty. I can recognise a good design, but I just can't seem to produce it no matter how hard I try, or how long I try for. Also, doing frontend design…
What about front end coding? Putting design into js/html/css?
Is that also a domain of a backend developer or designer? I am just asking because I am really not sure.
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#24This is garbage. I say I am not a designer because my design work isn't of a high enough standard to be professionally acceptable and because it is a waste of my time, and thus my employers money, when I do so. Specialization is a key part of an efficient economy.
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#25One exception to this might be that we dont want to do the thing we might not know. I tell people i'm not a designer, because i really dont want to learn it.
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#26I often agonise of this, especially on a CV. e.g. I know how to use (say) a certain programming language a lot better than people I know actually being paid to use said programming language as their full-time job. On the other hand, I know my knowledge is really quite limited and no where approaching an experienced developer--certainly at present I could code up a smaller project or a prototype, but probably no more than that. So what could I say on a CV/resume without being misleading, but also without underselling myself in a job market where the people you're competing against are quite happy to exaggerate or outright fabricate?
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#27I'd be much more interested in Medium as a blogging platform, if they instated a ban on memes in posts.
Hard to take someone seriously when they use the modern equivalent of lolcats to make a point.
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#28This might be off topic but I feel that it is much easier for a designer to learn coding than for a developer to learn design. Anyone shares this feeling?
I think we've just not done a good enough job of providing resources to teach people design.
Notable exceptions like http://hackdesign.org/ excluded, It's either 'go to uni for 3 years' or 'figure it out yourself'
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#29This article actually makes me angry, because this kind of attitude is why I have to deal with such on amount of clueless hacks, who call themselves something they are not. Sure, if it's between you and your mom, you can call yourself whatever you like. But if I pay you to do something, and you say you are that thing, but all you did so far is read a "... for dummies" book and plan to learn on the job - paid by me, t…
My thoughts exactly.
I've worked with far too many freelancers that claim to know something in order to get business, only to then realise that what I'd paid for was hacked together; the kind of work that I wouldn't hire if this freelancer had come in for a full-time role.
This advice works, but only in certain jobs/situations. If you're an internal developer then this is an entirely reasonable thing to do, but more often than not some poor person is going to have to go through your awful code. It's this attitude that adds countless hours of fixes onto a system several years down the line.
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#30Exactly, how dare they suggest I'm not a surgeon. I'm off to buy a scalpel and put out a few craigslist ads. In a week we'll see who's got a new job title !
Serial killer? :)