Webdesign Job Qualifications list
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- vaxorcist0
I predict 2 types of designer gigs...
1. Big agency, where you really can hand-off a PSD, but it's actually with carefully named layers, and the designer knows:
Not to engage in "I want it to look EXACTLY the same everywhere on every device nonsense".. like some print designer who has a 27 inch monitor and doesn't realize laptops and ipads and phones are different....
Not to hand off a "3 wheel drive car" type of design to a developer... i.e. even this sort of designer knows they're writing specifications for something that has to be possible... and hence they may even be able to write a short "proof of concept" code, or link to somebody else on the web showing how they want things to work....
BUT for this agency designer, a HUGE part of their work is to PITCH to clients, to PITCH to creative directors and to defend ideas, to instill confidence, to be able to sit in meetings and say what is and is not possible on a deadline, for a budget,etc.... because account staff still don't know jack about coding timelines.... even if this designer isn't a code-head, he/she should know a rough guess of how long things take....
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2. The "usual" sort of coder/designer/smiler/coffee-mak... designer we're all turning into, where you calmy do all sorts of things on a deadline and make it all look seemless, constantly learning new stuff and having no diva attitude at all...
it's not so much knowing the alphabet soup of current tech acronyms... , but the willingness to grow, and not just fixate on a "panacea" technology that can do it all... i.e. whatever is right for the project, rather than whatever you happened to know and shoe-horning that into the clients supposed needs....
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