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True, definitely, I absolutely agree. But have you not also worked with coders who are fundamentally inept at design, making it seem like they're almost blind?
by tjogin 17y ago
True, definitely, I absolutely agree.
But have you not also worked with coders who are fundamentally inept at design, making it seem like they're almost blind? I know I have, but for some reason we seem to more often accept this kind of very similar lack of tangential skill level.
- tibbon 17y agoRight- the argument on the other side of the aisle is, "coders don't know anything about design and produce nothing but horridly ugly pages". They cite a few programmers that didn't meet some art-school design standard about font spacing and then want to take away the ability to effect design from the coders at all. Functional and elegant rarely equate to a designer as they do to a coder. For example, I know that many of them would really dislike Hacker News. Not enough, "pop" or "zing" to it.
- tjogin 17y agoDesign isn't pop and zing (I'm aware of the reference). Design is not a coat of paint. Maybe you're just joking, but it doesn't matter because even if you are, there is no lack of programmers who don't have any better of design fundamentals than exactly that poor an understanding. My point is simply that before we complain about designers lack of coding ability, perhaps we should first educate those in our own trade about the fundamentals of design — because coders are no better at this. Glasshouses, and all that.