Do you need to code to be a designer
Do you need to code to be a designer
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My general rule of thumb when I consider a web design candidate (or any designer or art director, really) is if they have a basic understanding of what is or isn't possible on the web. Beyond that, whether or not they can mark up or do back-end coding is utterly irrelevant to me. There are people in this building who get paid to do that all day. I want creatives.
- This is greatbklyndroobeki
- your hired!yurimon
- are you a designer yurimon?monospaced
- then you're only hiring people based on what they know, equivalent or less than what you would know.omg
- Instead of hiring smarter people based on what they might be capable of doing in the future.omg
- that is by hiring people with basic understanding, or what is or isn't possible on the web.omg
- I think most successful people who designed for the web never knew what was possible on the internet until they tried it.omg
- Everything is content driven now, design is kinda back seat. few sites express pure design especially if you have multiple contributors to a project.yurimon
- Didn't the "content is king" theory die in the 2000s?omg
- I think it died as a marketing slogan. you have content management which is still high on content value just diversified because of diff media and delivery sysyurimon
- i thought content was meaningless these days compared to aggregation of it. (for example news companies vs twitter and facebook.)omg
- content is still a base for everything, quality is another conversation, but aggregation cant happen without content. marketing lingo is different.yurimon
- now everyone designing is a story teller. but facebook to me is user based content may be different category prob fits aggregation areayurimon
- part of the sharing economy.yurimon
- lol. someone is trying to keep the upvotes to a minimum.bklyndroobeki
- passing the buck along isn't efficientdoesnotexist