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You are comparing apples to cantaloupes here. He's talking about imitating or drawing inspiration from other websites for the visual elements of a particular w
by omarchowdhury 15y ago
You are comparing apples to cantaloupes here.
He's talking about imitating or drawing inspiration from other websites for the visual elements of a particular website. Everyone does this.
- ahoyhere 15y agoOh, is there a button in Photoshop that helps you "draw inspiration"? Or can that happen without Photoshop or any design tool whatsoever? It is the exact same thing.
- omarchowdhury 15y agoNo it isn't. You can look at a visual element or style on another website and mimic it for your own. You can't look at, say, Facebook and determine the exact code structure and replicate that.
- ahoyhere 15y agoVisual style != design. End of story.
- AznHisoka 15y agoPlease, stop trying to make your specialty some special voodoo that only gifted, special people will know about. It's a commodity.
- ahoyhere 15y agoAh, it only chafes when I apply your statements back to you about your profession. I see. Point of fact: I started as a visual designer when I was a teenager. Then I learned PHP, then Ruby, then JavaScript, off which I made lots and lots of money and no little fame. Then I got really interested in the way software WORKED and turned into an interface designer. Who designs and develops her own shit. Now I make and sell products directly to people who use them, nobody will "hire" me for anything ever again. What is my profession exactly, that I am preciously trying to protect?
- AznHisoka 15y agoNo it isn't. And even good programmers do "copy" certain elements (programming style, idioms, design patterns) from good code they see. It's like reading code is such a great way to be a good programmer.