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If you can afford it, please hire professional designers. These posts are interesting and useful. But as in any industry there things that you can only learn th
by andrewfelix 15y ago
If you can afford it, please hire professional designers. These posts are interesting and useful. But as in any industry there things that you can only learn through years of experience and education.
- the-cakeboss 15y agoJust as is the case with many things, ability comes with experience. Design, while dealing with many concrete and quantifiable considerations, still relies heavily on a distinguishing and trained eye. It's what separates the Jakob Nielsens ( almost entirely intellectual in approach ) and marketable attractive design.
- starwed 15y agoWell, the more knowledge an individual has in an area, the more likely they are to realise their shortcomings.
- andrewfelix 15y agoIt can also create a false sense of understanding...“A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.”
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- danso 15y agoI think this is less of a danger for good developers and engineers, whose skills are constantly tested by objective measures,and thus, get a lot of immediate feedback as to whether their skills pass muster. I think designers, on the other hand, are more likely to overestimate their ability when first learning how to integrate code
- andrewfelix 15y agoAnyone care to explain their downvote?
- starwed 15y agoI left your comment unmolested, but I'd guess because of the aphorism? There's something fundamentally lazy about appealing to them... :P I didn't bother to cite it before, but there's a pretty well known study in this area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
- Wolfr 15y agoI agree, this is also mentioned somewhere in one of the last slides. As a designer I know about MySQL, the terminal, PHP, Javascript, jQuery, RoR, Sass, HTML, CSS etc.; if a developer knows the basics about color, typography and alignment and knows why the designer in his team does the things he/she does it's probably going to be much easier working together.
- andrewfelix 15y agoGood point. I hadn't actually considered that angle. I tend to get instinctively defensive when people from other professions make assumptions about mine based on a limited understanding.