Design for programmers
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Design for programmers
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Re: Design for programmers
#2Even though it still hasn't launched, I posted this since I thought that the design games at the bottom of the page were cool.
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#3Interesting, I guess since I'm used to seeing sites for programming for designers a lot.
There's something that looks a little weird: http://i.imgur.com/BIbGxZUl.jpg I'm on Firefox 32 using Ubuntu.
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#4It is much needed course but it really doesn't compare with Codecademy's beginner course.
The design games were very vague and had no clear objective. I guess it is a bit harder to gamify something that is more subjective and "looser" in nature
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#5Very interested. Are there any courses already out there that can teach basic design?
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#6Although different in nature (less interactive, more articles), HackDesign course is worth mentioning. I learned a lot there: https://hackdesign.org/lessons
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#7Very interested. Are there any courses already out there that can teach basic design?
This book is pretty good
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Bea...
Also, the other day I came across this pretty exhaustive blog post https://medium.com/@karenxcheng/how-to-get-a-job-as-a-design...
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#8It is much needed course but it really doesn't compare with Codecademy's beginner course. The design games were very vague and had no clear objective. I guess it is a bit harder to gamify something that is more subjective and "looser" in nature
I played the kerning game. It's true they don't give you any instruction on what good kerning is, so if you've never been exposed to the concept you have to discover it by failing through it.
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#9Programmers are not an alien species that needs special instructions catered to their profession. They're regular people, who learn the same way anyone does: by doing.
This website wastes time talking about how programmers are analytical people, and can't hope to understand design without special teaching methods. Let's end this myth. Programmers are not inherently more logical and analytical than other people (Lots of jobs require logic, even design jobs). Programmers are normal people who learned a skill.
Re: Design for programmers
#10Programmers are not an alien species that needs special instructions catered to their profession. They're regular people, who learn the same way anyone does: by doing. This website wastes time talking about how programmers are analytical people, and can't hope to understand design without special teaching methods. Let's end this myth. Programmers are not inherently more logical and analytical than other people (Lots…
Design is also a very experiential field: you don't learn how to do good design, you eventually get good at it by doing it a lot. It helps to know some basics before getting started, but most of what design school does is force you to do a lot.