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> I'm primarily a UI designer by trade but I found the skills easily transferable. Would you mind highlighting a few of those?
by atom-morgan 12y ago
> I'm primarily a UI designer by trade but I found the skills easily transferable.
Would you mind highlighting a few of those?
- jowiar 12y agoPaging Dr. Norman: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0465067107 http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...
- snide 12y agoSure. Most of woodworking is measurement of rectangles. That's pretty much my entire day in CSS. Instead of pixel pushing I push inches. Woodworking even has it's own box model. When I make a cut on a table saw I need to account for Kerf, which is the part of the wood being stripped away. It's like a border 1px on my box :) The rest is just basic design. If you know how to arrange a web layout, you'll find designing furniture much more fun. Probably the reason I like it most is the permanence. Although sites I've designed for the web have lasted decades at this point, none of them keep the actual design for a year or two. When I build something in wood it's going to be like that forever. The only thing I can do is repaint it.