Web Design for Print Designers

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  • mekk1

    I'm sick of explaining my job to people that did not learn anything new in the last 15 years just so they can keep up with my work.

    • imagine how they feel hearing that website builders care more about code than the design sidemonospaced
    • imagine hearing from print designers that they still haven't taken a look into digital design in 2020mekk
    • imagine all the peopleimbecile
    • It isn’t hard to do.monospaced
    • I do agree with this. I'd question any designer (print or otherwise) who hasn't had the curiosity to at least dabble in the web over the past 20 yearsBaskerviIle
    • Question what exactly? Surely not their design expertise.monospaced
    • I'd want to know why they haven't been curious about the web, I don't see how someone could be good at their craft without exploration and experimentation andzarkonite
    • if you haven't been curious about that then what else have you been too lazy to explore? is this how they work, repeat old formulas all the time?zarkonite
    • Exactly, if you work in print (and I used to back in the day), you will have noticed more and more of your work and your live moving to digital.BaskerviIle
    • I would hope that any designer was curious about the world around them, especially as print skills translate easily to web...it's all just layout and hierarchyBaskerviIle
    • yeah I didn't mean if your job doesn't require any digital then that's different, I totally agree with you on seeing your work slip away.zarkonite
    • Look. Of course I’ve done digital work and I’ve been curious and explored. I’m not “lazy.” But the web side only asks for certain assets not the skill to develomonospaced
    • If my job wasn’t already insanely demanding I might have taken time to totally learn a skill I don’t need. But that isn’t the case. I’m a seasoned designer stilmonospaced
    • When faced with threads like this, a traditional designer sees terms CSS and html and it never seems clear. What software. Where to start?monospaced
    • Hey mono I wasn't calling you lazy, sorry man, I was thinking of my experiences with print people that don't want to do any digital.zarkonite
    • I hear ya. I'm sensitive because I'm a print guy who never had to do web, and never learned it. I would rather focus on the visual system than technical stuffmonospaced
    • What's lacking on the web side is designers with good fundamentals so I personally like onboarding print people into digital... there's things to know of coursezarkonite
    • but no one needs to go in depth with the technical stuff. It's not like knowing how to make your own ink makes you a better pring designer.zarkonite
    • agreedmonospaced

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