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> design-lead tools like Bootstrap have made it much easier for engineers to design great looking apps using a css framework has nothing to do with design, it'
by zalew 14y ago
> design-lead tools like Bootstrap have made it much easier for engineers to design great looking apps
using a css framework has nothing to do with design, it's an implementation detail. using a preconfigured theme doesn't make it designed (for sure doesn't make it designed well).
//edit: reworded it.
- coryl 14y ago*Well you edited your text to be more specific, so I edited mine :)
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- polemic 14y agoWell, I guess plugging Heroku to Stripe has "nothing to do with" engineering as well. But, for the sake of discussion between rational people, we should bypass excessive pedantry. EDIT: -- I see the comment above was modified to add the emphasis and ", it's an implementation detail..." Please don't fixate on the one example provided. It's a tool that greatly aids design. Starting up a Heroku instance with a CMS isn't engineering either, but that's Not The Point.
- zalew 14y agoyeah, I edited it not to be so vague. me arguing your opinion about programmers <air quote>designing</air quote> <air quote>great looking</air quote> apps is not pedantry nor is it irrational. better tools are there to make you work faster, they don't make you work better.
- polemic 14y agoAnd me arguing your opinion about designers <air quote>engineering</air quote> <air quote>secure, scalable, easy to maintain</air quote> apps is not pedantry either. But one side of this argument seems to be blind to the obvious parallels.