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Yes, but just as an engineer rises up to wearing many hats, why cant designers? If they are ready for the plunge, they can dabble around in more places, than ju
by zeppelin_7 15y ago
Yes, but just as an engineer rises up to wearing many hats, why cant designers? If they are ready for the plunge, they can dabble around in more places, than just design. Plus like I said if the entire app is user centric/facing, a designer (with some frontend) is very valuable. Being a designer cofounder, I imagine a designer who is ready to do more, and willing to bend/broaden him/her self.
- nostrademons 15y agoThey can, but if they do, they're usually not called a "designer" anymore. Usually they're at least a "business cofounder", if not a "visionary". Steve Jobs is arguably one of the best designers of this generation. He's almost never called a designer. He's called "the genius visionary behind Apple Computer".
- zeppelin_7 15y agoWell an engineer doing everything is still an engineering founder, so why not a designer doing more than designing be called so? I think the question is why do fewer designers take the plunge as a founder.
- arvindsuresh 15y agoBecause engineers build things. And can come up with a simple design themselves, even though it might be a really bad design. We've all grown up interacting with user interfaces. But designers haven't grown up playing with code, and hence, its a relatively harder/non-traditional concept for them.
- steventruong 15y agoI could be wrong on this but I'm not sure there's any evidence that suggests he's a designer as opposed to someone with an eye for design, similarly, just like how he didn't build or code the original Macintosh but he knew how he wanted it to work. You wouldn't call him a programmer or engineer in that case either (although he did have some experience as a hardware technician).