_johnny

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It's Business Time - introduction to DCI (video with Jim Gay)(youtube.com)
1 points by _johnny 15y ago|0 comments
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by _johnny 15y ago
> they're print designers who dabble in the web, amateurs They're print designers but definitely not amateurs. In the end, what really matters is that the client receives very high quality work and it is cost effective for the company.
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by _johnny 15y ago
> If you can't build me a complete cross browser HTML template, a skin, for a website, you aren't a web designer. If you've found such people - great. In places I've worked it was different. And designers did exceptionally beautiful thi
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by _johnny 15y ago
Sorry to be shocking :) I defend them because they're paid to do beautiful work and lack of layer names was never really an issue for me. Maybe just a couple of times. If the mess they left would be too big for me, then I'd complain. As lon
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by _johnny 15y ago
Totally agree with you, it was the same in places I've worked.
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by _johnny 15y ago
> not much consistency to your logic here It is logical, because there are often hundreds of layers and presumably even more during the design process. Naming each one is a lot of work. There are much less files in the end so it's total
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by _johnny 15y ago
It's different than code. First of all, if the designer gets the job done without renaming layers, then it's his business. (In my experience, a lot of them don't need to name layers). Unless he hands over the design to someone else. I'm not
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by _johnny 15y ago
OK, you (and other commenters) are right. It was an overstatement. I agree with your last paragraph.
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by _johnny 15y ago
But then such designer is not a target for this "Manifesto". BTW, I see value in having one person create designs as HTML files, but I also know a lot of designers who create beautiful, graphics-rich designs and don't know much about code.
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by _johnny 15y ago
I'm a frontend developer and I think some of these expectations make little sense. Giving a name to every layer is a lot of work and I don't care about it that much. I'll do my work with layers like "Layer 0 copy copy" as long as they're gr
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by _johnny 15y ago
Interesting. We've just had a discussion in our team about moving as much as possible to the client becasue... developers enjoy writing CoffeeScript!
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Facebook constantly banning applications(forum.developers.facebook.net)
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