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Two or three of the best designers that I would never hesitate to recommend all know how to code. They know exactly what's possible in which browser, and they o
by _s 11y ago
Two or three of the best designers that I would never hesitate to recommend all know how to code. They know exactly what's possible in which browser, and they organise their assets, mockups, designs, documentation so beautifully that as a developer I actually look forward to bringing their designs to life.
More often than not I'll shy away from doing front-end precisely because a lack of understanding from a designers part on what's possible or what needs to be hacked together using ludicrous amounts of JS/CSS workarounds; especially since these very designs or ideas is what the client or PM okays / is expecting.
Just my $0.02 - as a dev I'd love you quite a lot of you knew what I do and help me by taking the limitations into account :)
- mgkimsal 11y agoLikewise, devs need to - politely, but firmly - know how to push back on some 'designs'. I push back on bad designs - things that obviously won't be usable on multiple devices, have demonstrably poor UI, etc - when I know that the 'design' was done in a vacuum, without any testing or acknowledgement of web realities. I've worked some truly awesome design folks over the years, but also had some folks have their 'designer' send me a PSD from themeforest that they went in and added crap to that made it essentially unusable, then charged the client $800 for a $30 theme.