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The Dribbblisation of Design
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#22Dribbble is to design what GitHub is to coding. Case closed.
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#23While the author gives some great tips about product design, I don't think it's fair to say that Dribbble is belittling product design. You don't really get the full picture with each shot. You don't know what the designer's agenda is with that particular image, whether it's for fun or is going to be implemented in an actual product. I doubt that all designers on Dribbble go in head-first by only caring about the visuals. I can see where the author tried to go with this article, but I don't think that you can really place a single label on an entire community.
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#24As someone who went through a job hunt without a "Dribbblized" portfolio a couple years ago: Go with the Dribbble approach. At least if you're looking for anything resembling a design job.
That final layer of polish and execution is what gets you hired. If you don't have that, you get eliminated immediately. Nobody will ask about your process or your wireframes if your resume gets tossed in the trash bin. You'll never have a conversation about the organizational mission and how it relates to the product if you never get called back for an interview.
If you go in with Paul's first three steps (like I did) and you're lucky enough to talk to someone who doesn't eliminate based on that all-important fourth step of visual design, you'll find yourself in disagreement. There's 8,000 ways to build a product, and chances are your method simply won't line up with theirs.
Meanwhile, there's also 8,000 ways to make something look good, but all of those ways end up beautiful. It's hard to argue about solid visual design, even if it doesn't fit your particular style or tastes.
You can get away with subpar visual design skills at your own startup, like I did, but don't ever expect to get hired without developing those skills. They're more important than the other three combined.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a very, very common synonym, short for world-wide web.
I'm aware. They shouldn't be used interchangeably.
Could you expand on that, I've heard people say this but I've never heard a good reason for why, they just assumed I understood it intuitively, when it wasn't too clear at all.
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#26What are some resources/guides to design in a Dribbble style? There is obviously a consistent aesthetic (effects, shadows, etc.)
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#27If there is anything I hate more than the technique described in the OP, it are websites which don't center content.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm aware. They shouldn't be used interchangeably.
Could you expand on that, I've heard people say this but I've never heard a good reason for why, they just assumed I understood it intuitively, when it wasn't too clear at all.
Well, pardon my analogy:
Internet is like roads network - infrastructure which you use to run...
WWW, which is type of traffic on road eg. cars
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#29When I read this type of criticism, I always get the impression that everyone thinks they are better at what they do than everyone else.
How so? And what is "this type of criticism"? To me it looks like the design world has taken one concept and hyped and warped it, missing the point of the original goals. I don't see this article as any different than the misuse of Hadoop article that was posted yesterday.
>> And what is "this type of criticism"?
Perhaps gross generalisation is a fitting term? Basically it's somewhat insulting to insinuate that designers on Dribbble believe glamour shots are the be-all and end-all of design. I've heard several prominent Dribbblers interviewed on various web design podcasts, they know what it is and what it isn't.
>> To me it looks like the design world...
Whoah there, you can judge the collective opinion of 'the design world' from your desk?! :)
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm aware. They shouldn't be used interchangeably.
Could you expand on that, I've heard people say this but I've never heard a good reason for why, they just assumed I understood it intuitively, when it wasn't too clear at all.
The internet is the world-wide network of computers. The web is HTTP and HTML and other such technologies, that may or may not run on top of the internet, but when they do they form the world-wide-web or web for short.
When people talk about clothes on the web, it's nonsense because they probably don't run HTTP.