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I think you're right, but there's a third situation that works even better: A great designer and a great programmer will work better than a great designer who
by mortenjorck 17y ago
I think you're right, but there's a third situation that works even better:
A great designer and a great programmer will work better than a great designer who has picked up some programming, but both will be put to shame by the team of a great designer who understands the challenges the programmer has, with a programmer who understands the challenges of the designer.
In other words: It's important to learn new disciplines, even if you never get near a professional level with them, because you'll work better with the people specializing in that area.
- joe_the_user 17y agoHonestly, when you have a team of people with multiple talents, which talent each has becomes rather irrelevant. A lot of times what happens is how well the team communicates. Whether a designer understands the challenges of programming in general won't matter as much as where the designer is willing to listen to the particular challenges and needs of the programmer working on that particular project (and vice-versa).
- ewjordan 17y agoI think that's great advice, and it's something I'd love to work towards. I suspect I'm speaking for a lot of us here when I say that I have absolutely no idea where to even start when it comes to design, though. And I don't mean learning CSS - that's the easy part (at least once you embrace how underequipped CSS truly is vs. the problems of layout and styling). Are there any good beginner resources available that focus more on developing good designs and less on implementing them? It seems that most of the beginning design stuff assumes that you already know what you want things to look like and that you don't know how to build it; for me, it's usually the opposite problem.