who's the greatest web designer
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- tomkat0
yugo nakamura
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- JazX0
i classify a web designer as some one who understands the tools, methods and limitation...
...not everyone can design for the web.
MrDinky
(Dec 30 05, 19:01)smartest post ever
- g3kk0k1d0
who's the greatest test crash dummy?
- version30
"Buster"
- g3kk0k1d0
he is the most mainstream famous not the greatest :P, my point was we cannot name the greatest to anything and its only one's personal preference
- 67nj0
Hillman Curtis...
praystation...
- JazX0
the greatest web designer ever is that kid on NT that typed out that middle finger graphic so I could post it at @ssholes
- skelly0
Bill Perkins.
- Rand0
son
- robotron3k0
lots of the ppl mentioned are coders or artists/guest speakers or i-shops, but they are NOT web designers. but i'm talking about an individual who designs the GUI and creates a concept for a web site.
maybe because of the web's variety, there is no one "greatest" web designer.
but if you were looking for a great web designer, people like JD, John Mada, hillman, yugo, and all the artists, coders, lecturers and consultants mentioned wouldn't make the list, but they might make the "who's the most well know web personailty" or "who made most money traveling around the world and talking about the web" list...
kinda funny, this seems to have stumped everyone...
- tkmeister0
those guys who designed google.
i don't know. what's the definition of web designer?
first of all, i hate to be called web designer. good designers can cross over.
- version30
robotron-
no one is stumped, the answers dinky and i have given are people that have shaped the internet not only the way you use it but also the way you see it. the genius to thier work is that it can change, it doesn't have to look like a blog clone to be efficient or useful in ever changing appearances
web design isn't even comparable to print on any level except there is a graphic to see
templates are trash on the web as either an artform or useful medium
no GUI would be worth a pixel if it weren't for the syntax written to drive it
you are a hinderance to this discussion until you realize web design NEEDS code to be viable
- skelly0
also, no one will ever agree on a single greatest anything, no matter what the question is.
- visualplane0
There's some great designers out there who keep a low profile
- MrDinky0
mind you i am measuring against the pioneers as greatest.
JD worked at Kioken and all his experiments on praystation lead to some of his applied work.
that would also apply to Yugo and Natzk but from as far as i could remember, those guys got inspired by JD and his expierment.
- robotron3k0
i agree with you to a point version3, but i'm not interested in coding or the best actionscripters, only visual design.
design asthetic is the differentiator.
now some coders mentioned have design talent (as some designers have code talent) but that doesn't make them great by any means.
now if you're talking about "great web innovators", perhaps one or two of the people mentioned would make the list but they are still not great designers.
i agree with visualplane, the best web designers keep the lowest profile.
- AlphaDK0
I would have to say that my favorites for this year would have to go to the Web2.0 crew as a whole... take your pick, Shaun Inman, Andy Budd, etc.
The reason is that I feel this year, above all others before it, has really turned full-steam to designing for the end-user and the content. Web-based applications such as Flickr and Moveable Type as well as social networking platforms such as MySpace and Friendster have helped to bring the internet into the lives of people who were never interested or active in the web prior.
Designing for these purposes has placed more limitations and the wide adoption of CSS, AJAX and simple but functional design has led to a huge revolution in designing for the "everyman".
I feel that the internet's one flaw has always been that it has never had its own means of storytelling; now the storytelling is becoming a living account of everyones lives, and these applications and the designers that work within those outlined limits, have helped to bring this to fruition.
- Crouwel0
teh design king.