Design in the near future
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- vaxorcist0
"learning flash" is obsolete, but "learning how to think in object-oriented ways" will not be....Flash memorizers are fucked, AS3 programmers who really get object oriented thinking can pickup other technologies in a week or less often....
- Exactlyabettertomorrow
- But you're talking about developers. In so many situations, it's much more about motion graphics and design.CyBrainX
- akrok0
and...
if you thought the pay wasn't good before i think it's even worser now. and great design = great pay. don't apply. that's just a saying that keeps our hopes up.i don't know how it's on the developer side. but as client keep squeezing the budget. you can't pay the developer good either. same thing goes with the printer. (those few who's left).
- nocomply0
Only read the first post, but honestly as a front-end web developer who sucks at flash I'm finding this a great time of expanding possibilities and I actually think design is improving... at least in terms of clean, accessible and bulletproof layouts with an intuitive UI.
My complaints with Flash were numerous, but one of the major ones was that Flash-based sites were always difficult to use/navigate. I understand that perhaps that's part of the creativity of the site or part of the user-experience, but personally I prefer when websites follow more standard conventions so that there is no learning curve involved with using/navigating the site.
Don't get me wrong I think Flash is great for specific uses but I am very happy to see it going away as an entire web-development tool.
- abettertomorrow0
I think there are so many trends going on simultaneously it is impossible to generalize. You could only design apps in Obj-C or Java and it would not seem like capabilities were limited compared with the past. You can do "user experience" and never have to worry about graphics or writing a line of code. It may be true that Flash overall is in the decline, but you can still specialize in Flash and get tons of work. The industry is evolving and many jobs that were once just a subset of "web design" are now considered career paths of their own.
- vaxorcist0
I look forward to this new world.... more elegance, more simplicity, less "kitchen sink" mindset, less "make it POP with FLASH!!!" mindset, more respect for the users time, more awareness that less is often more....
as to the dev side, I'm also looking forward to less tendency to have major re-directions of purpose at the last minute, as people are more likely to actually get the idea of doing a few things well, rather than doing fuck-all everything...
- CyBrainX0
That's another thing. The client buys a shiny new iPad, can't see parts of the huge corporate site the agency has been running for a few years with hundreds of pages, and wants it all to work. The agency bends over, migrates a ton of shit to html and then the client says what happened to all the pretty animations, demos, 3D, etc.
I don't think the full damage has been done yet. seems like we're just about at the tipping point.
- what sort of fucking moron adds loads of flash to a corporate site?animatedgif
- bad designer not a bad clientanimatedgif
- hello $$$$ and your sold. lol.akrok
- The site I'm thinking of is this. garnierusa.com. I guess consumer site would have been a better description.CyBrainX
- GeorgesII0
The future of design is Facebook and twitter
the rest is non important for the plebes
my 2ct
- prophetone0
- *more flash requiredprophetone
- *and tight leather pantsprophetone
- And less boob-coverage.Continuity
- I didn't realize this magazine was still around, unless it's a older issuepinkfloyd
- no no, this a mock for this july's issue... it's says 2001 but it's supposed to say 2011prophetone
- cannonball19780
More UX and ID mixed with visual savvy. Less pud-pumping with platform specializing.
- Dodecahedron0
Every time someone says 'crowdsourcing' here I always put '...spec work' at the end...meaning they are actually saying 'crowdsourcing spec work' because thats what you guys are really talking about. There's lots more to crowdsourcing than 99designs and services like it, I think its ultimately one of the most innovative and relevant creative processes going and will be even more prevalent in 5-10 years.
Again what the real problem in the design industry is using crowdsourcing for spec work, not crowdsourcing itself.
- bananaman0
Flash has nothing to do with innovation and creativity. Along with many other web technologies, it's just a presentation tool.
Compared with 5 or 10 years ago, user experience a lot better. It's because we now have a lot more experience and have learnt not to design overblown, heavy navigation concepts but to design products that are unobtrusive, communicate simply and well.
With digital technologies so young and evolving we're living an a really exciting time, so embrace it, because otherwise you sound like old folks muttering about the good old days. We'll can do that in about twenty years.
- +1vaxorcist
- You're only blaming bad Flash designers who will abuse other tools just as quickly. Besides, you sound like you're talking about PowerPoint.CyBrainX
- sound like you're talking about PowerPoint.CyBrainX
- +1 to bananaanimatedgif
- bananaman FTW!abettertomorrow
- Very naive. You'll be proven wrong in about three minutes.CyBrainX
- Morning_star0
I was illustrating this manuscript yesterday, you know the kinda thing; Religious iconography, top dollar vellum, awesome ink work, heraldic creatures etc and i find out from one of the other scribes that there's this new upstart son-of-a-bitch on the scene called Johannes Gutenberg claiming he can make multiple copies of manuscripts in an instant. This is the end of design and i'm fucked.
- LOL +1Continuity
- Hear, hear. I second the +1 and the LOL.nb
- haha heraldic creaturesabettertomorrow
- I do like the religious flash we've seen recently, something named Cathedral?vaxorcist
- Clever but the difference is that Gutenberg's press was a creative improvement, not limiting detriment.CyBrainX
- That's debatable. The immediate colour/quality limits of the press vs hand crafted illumination? there's no competition. The press is/was mass media. Have you ever seen the book of Kells?Morning_star
- ...there's no competition. Have you ever seen the book of Kells?Morning_star
- dskz0
a 5 year old will have better design tools than you can even dream of.
- animatedgif0
ITT 2Advanced refugees
- Continuity0
I wouldn't worry so much about design itself; it's the constant devaluation of the industry in the last few years that's got me more worried. Between crowd-sourcing, recessions and cunts like the UK government promoting 99designs, it's not looking good for the business at all.
- pinkfloyd0
I just don't like the fact that a developer has to write 50 lines of code where in flash, you can just use a tween. Sounds a bit antidesigner friendly to me.
- To each his/her own...ideaist
- Basically I wish flash works on the ipadpinkfloyd
- basically flash is a great tool for non-delevopers to actually get things working.jabblon
- work with better developersanimatedgif
- but flash stuff can be sooo hard to hand off to somebody else to finish.. chaos inside!vaxorcist
- Work with better designers.CyBrainX
- utopian0
Unfortunately creative, interesting, and or innovative design is just about dead. The interwebs is busy making room for more templates, themes, and blogs.
R.I.P. Design