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Oh, 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
by ahoyhere 15y ago
Oh, 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.