Web Design for Print Designers

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  • Nairn3

    Encourage them to learn to give up on the idea that what they want to see exactly is exactly what they'll see.

    • It was hard for me to understand the flexibility of a responsive grid at first. Then you also have a dev team that fucks with your design.Chimp
    • The idea you can't get what you designed must be the most frustrating thing for a traditional designer. Web fucking sucks.monospaced
    • It's a wholly different medium. Nowadays I find the idea of "Things Need to be Exactly How I want on screen" quite ridiculous and antithetical to the web.Nairn
    • To me, the ridiculous part is that after 30+ years, we still can't get it exactly as we want. I agree, the web is antithetical to design ideals ...monospaced
    • ... which is not the designer's fault.monospaced
    • Eh? How should a medium be subserviant to a design presumption? The medium dictates the message. The myriad of digital outputs is not a printed page.Nairn
    • So if a designer doesn't understand the limitations - and potentials - of the medium they're working in, then it is absolutely their fault if they choose.Nairn
    • You can still deliver a flat PNG file if you want some conceit of exactness on a medium far beyond that, but fuck if that's basically useless.Nairn
    • Or, an SVG file. At least that has readable elements. Still stupid.Nairn
    • I spent the first few years of my professional life trying to ensure that client's brands translated exactly across browsers. Stupid. Short-sighted.Nairn

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