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The point of this really shouldn't be "I leave it to designers because they're better at aesthetic design" it should be "I leave it to designers because I'm alr
by tomasien 14y ago
The point of this really shouldn't be "I leave it to designers because they're better at aesthetic design" it should be "I leave it to designers because I'm already a good coder, and my time is more valuable".
Designing a really great product beyond choosing fonts, colors, and shapes (which is extremely hard, but you can Google good font pairings and color palettes) just takes time and lot of thought. Experience counts, but you have it. If you spent 2 weeks working on a UX, you'd do great work, I promise you.
- tomasien 14y agoI think my choice of the word "great" in the second paragraph was off, but I'll stand by the rest. I have a legitimate learning disability when it comes to aesthetics, going as far as not being able to recall what shape almost anything was 5 seconds after seeing it. I'm also excellent at web design, because it's really a logical, emotional, and time/test driven process more than aesthetic.
- adrianhoward 14y agoI'm also excellent at web design, because it's really a logical, emotional, and time/test driven process more than aesthetic. Once you dig into some design theory - you'll find that visual design (and other elements of design) are a lot more "logical, emotional and time/test driven" than you think ;-) There are lots of rules of thumb and heuristics. Lots of applied knowledge rather than just judging things from an aesthetic POV. Indeed the process of becoming a good designer is basically building up that aesthetic POV from the ground up. In a similar way that experienced developers see "ugly" code much more directly than beginners do. Obviously I don't know you - but I've worked with folk who have said very similar things to what you've said about having no eye for aesthetics who have ended up with some fairly good basic design chops.