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> you can't just learn how to make great designs I worked with many talented designers in pre-Internet-Crash 1.0 days. They were very good at telling me where
by j1o1h1n 18y ago
> you can't just learn how to make great designs
I worked with many talented designers in pre-Internet-Crash 1.0 days. They were very good at telling me where to add some whitespace - almost invisible tweaks that made great differences.
They all studied at design college. Of course in those days, their training was in print, and didn't enjoy working with the limitations of the web.
You could do some traditional artistic study?
Of course, if you just want your website to look great - hire someone. An advantage you have over someone hiring you to do programming work is that you can look at a piece of artistic design work and make a value judgement about whether it is any good.
- josefresco 18y agoPrint designers know nothing of the web, and are a nuisance to good web designers everywhere. I have clients who routinely consult their "print designer" who in turn gives them the worst advice known to man. As a web designer and user interface expert, when a client asks me for a brochure or business card design I dutifully refer them to a print expert and don't tell them "yeah I can do that" just because I can.
- gnaritas 18y agoWorse, print designers know nothing of the web, and tend to think they know everything because design is design right! It's a pain to convince them that different mediums have different idioms and what works in print doesn't work well on the web.