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Agree. I feel like the division in which designers only work in Figma/Sketch/etc. without actually being able to implement those things in HTML and CSS leads to
by rarecoil 6y ago
Agree. I feel like the division in which designers only work in Figma/Sketch/etc. without actually being able to implement those things in HTML and CSS leads to designs that are often impractical for the platform. Shouldn't the person responsible for drawing the user experience have an understanding as to what is actually capable on the platform that they are designing for?
- redis_mlc 6y agoFunny story. The largest bank in Canada had a designer create the new logo/menu (called the "key") for the website, but it was around 200k at the time, so was impractical on a dial-up modem. One of the senior eng. managers re-implemented it, and got it down to about 30k, which got the page to load in under 7 seconds (the performance standard before high-speed home Internet.) Everybody was impressed, saying, "Wow, serious technical cred for a manager!" :)
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoEven if you do fully understand the platform you'll still find yourself having to argue with engineers who claim things are "impossible", any talent capable of producing high quality, performant UI with great UX front end work is extremely rare. Struggling to find engineers who can even create a button and link that function correctly these days on pages with 5-10 second load times.