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Web teams still need graphic designers to communicate visually appealing messages. And graphic designers moving from a print team to a web team should stay grap

Web teams still need graphic designers to communicate visually appealing messages. And graphic designers moving from a print team to a web team should stay graphic designers. What a load of crap. Graphic design is to print what web design is to the web. You cannot take a print designer and expect him to design websites. It is two _completely_ different fields. Design has specialties, and it just so happens that the term graphic designer has evolved into describing designers that are good at working with the physical print medium. On the other hand the term web designer described people that are good at working with interactive display-based design. Web designers, because they are working in an interactive medium, is expected to know UX design theory. It is part of the job. It is one of the many things that sets them apart from print designers. If they can't handle it perhaps they are just a crappy designer?

aarongough 17y ago
I hear what you're saying about the UX part... I think that this can be solved if the developer has knowledge in this area and can consult with the designer during the design process. This is the process at the company I work for and it works quite well. For more complex projects that have a lot of interaction the designer comes up with a look and feel and a color palette and then the developer requests additional graphic elements as he feels they are necessary...
- markkanof 17y ago
  That of course requires that the developer have UX knowledge/experience which many developers don't. I think ideally all persons involved with the creation of a user interface would have both UX knowledge and interest in creating a usable interface. The design process should be more fluid instead of just laying out a UI and then having the designer make it look pretty.
Semiapies 17y ago
I think this is part of the writer's point. The role of the graphics designer is not the role of the "web designer", but the term has been construed as such and might better be abandoned in favor of "user experience designer". I'm not sure I agree, but the importance of the graphics design/web design distinction is important.

aarongough 17y ago

I hear what you're saying about the UX part... I think that this can be solved if the developer has knowledge in this area and can consult with the designer during the design process. This is the process at the company I work for and it works quite well. For more complex projects that have a lot of interaction the designer comes up with a look and feel and a color palette and then the developer requests additional graphic elements as he feels they are necessary...

markkanof 17y ago
That of course requires that the developer have UX knowledge/experience which many developers don't. I think ideally all persons involved with the creation of a user interface would have both UX knowledge and interest in creating a usable interface. The design process should be more fluid instead of just laying out a UI and then having the designer make it look pretty.

Semiapies 17y ago

I think this is part of the writer's point. The role of the graphics designer is not the role of the "web designer", but the term has been construed as such and might better be abandoned in favor of "user experience designer". I'm not sure I agree, but the importance of the graphics design/web design distinction is important.