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‘Confessions Of A Designer’, What Goes On In A Designer's Mind
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- andycroll 15y agoI like "if you think it's simple, do it yourself" works for devs too.
- villagefool 15y agoBut sometimes things are simple and just time consuming, so you'd rather have someone else do them...
- lignuist 15y agoThat's exactly, what i wanted to write.
- guynamedloren 15y agoPretty accurate, but the designer overlooked one small design detail: all of the posters use the same crumpled paper background image. That's sloppy and lazy. Here's my designer poster: Details Matter
- rvkennedy 15y agoQuite - I was also disappointed in her grammar. Anyone who did paid work for me and came back with something containing "just because... doesn't mean" would not get a second contract.
- talmand 15y agoDepends on whether you hired the person to be a designer or a copywriter. But for such a short bit of copy I get your point.
- benohear 15y agoDisappointing. I was hoping to get some insight into this designer's creative process. Instead it is just a series of hackneyed statements about how clients don't value design and Macs are better than PCs.
- benohear 15y agoIf you want a much more interesting take on designer-client communication, check out this project by Brighten the Corners: http://brightenthecorners.com/page.php?jumpTo=56#i56 http://brightenthecorners.com/page.php?jumpTo=56#i56 They took samples from 10 years worth of email received and split them into three posters: Positive, negative and neutral. They are all good, but the headline for the 'negative' poster is an absolute classic ...
- rytis 15y agoIMO she's wrong about Comic Sans. According to 'Just My Type', teachers value this font, because autistic children accept/comprehend it easier.
- kyberias 15y agoCan't you designers just give Comic Sans a break? It's a fine font and has some fine places for usage.
- culturestate 15y agoNo we can't, no it's not, and no it doesn't. There are many other fun, comic-y faces that aren't terribly designed.
- agilebyte 15y agoCould you give some examples please?
- culturestate 15y agoExamples of alternatives? Glad to. Blambot(1) makes a range of great ones, especially Giant Sized Spectacular, and I'm personally partial to Loose(2). (1) http://www.blambot.com/fonts_design.shtml http://www.blambot.com/fonts_design.shtml (2) http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/zeptonn/loose/ http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/zeptonn/loose/
- kyberias 15y agoThese fonts (1) certainly look good but they are very different from Comic Sans, almost too pro. I think none of them capture the childish, random, non-professional feel that Comic Sans visualizes. I can understand why people loath Comic Sans but as I said, it has it's uses where more professional types fail. I recently saw Comic Sans used in one company's printed invoices. I though it ridiculous until I discussed the topic with the people there. They actually made a very tactical decision in using the font. It was all about the feel of it. Come to think of it, perhaps I'll found a fan club for Comic Sans. :)
- kyberias 15y agoCould you point out what objective qualities of Comic Sans makes it "terribly designed" when compared to other "comicy" fonts? Look, I'm not a particular fan of Comic Sans but I think the bashing of it is borderline childish given how many unreadable fonts there are.
- jeffmax 15y agoI feel like the sentiment portrayed in these posters could apply to almost anyone in any profession that happens to be feeling a little undervalued. This is not unique to design. More importantly, there is very little in useful advice. Disappointing this made it to the front page.
- rglover 15y agoSorry, but this is the farthest thing from real design. Slapping a (poorly typeset) font onto a poster with some commonly commiserated points is not design. They might as well have ditched the "posters" and just shared the quotes/anecdotes.
- wallflower 15y agoIf you want a humorous take, the classic "Missing Missy" http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
- j_baker 15y agoPerhaps it's just me, but I find myself wanting to say "If you think it's so easy then do it yourself" to designers rather than it coming from them.
- rythie 15y agoThere is no attempt to educate clients in this just a number of blanket statements. I'm sorry, but in most industries you try to educate clients about what you are doing and why it's valuable - this is just telling people they are idiots.
- jrabone 15y agoUninspiring. http://clientsfromhell.net/ http://clientsfromhell.net/ is (funnier|sadder|closer to the truth)
- hobin 15y agoI dislike these quotes. I would expect a good designer to be a professional, and to understand how all the people working on a product are important. In 'Confessions of a Designer', I sense mostly elitism and the idea that if you're not a designer, you can't make good-lucking stuff. Admittedly, none of these things are said quite that literally, so maybe it's just me interpreting the quotes that way.
- aen 15y agoI clicked on the link before I saw that it's Taxi, which is crap. This sort of shallow thinking is representative of the designer, if we define designers very loosely and pathetically.