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It's my belief that the better someone is at designing the worse they are at programming, and vice versa It's been my actual experience that good designers --
by ubernostrum 16y ago
It's my belief that the better someone is at designing the worse they are at programming, and vice versa
It's been my actual experience that good designers -- i.e., the ones who actually know more than just how to use Photoshop -- tend to be quite good at picking up programming when sufficiently motivated.
It's the transition in the other direction (programming -> design) that seems to be the killer.
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- true_religion 16y agoI've seen it go both ways. Flexible programmers (generalists) have an easy time learning the basics of design an turning out something that will pass snuff. Its not highly creative work for sure, but it will be easily usuable to the standards of Facebook.com, et all. Flexible designers on the other hand, can do simple coding too when motivated. However, you're not going to see them say coding a Baysian spam filter by hand, or making creative use of minhashing for auto-suggestion. The problem is with specialists.