Designeloper
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- siaukia
Anyone fall into this category?
Designer + Developer (doing everything that you are not even supposed to do or learn)Some say we're hybrid, the new generation, but in fact, it's pretty mind blowing needing to catch up with technology apart from designing.
- siaukia0
Someone asks, "So what do you do?"
Me answers, "Everything!"
- animatedgif0
Could do but I don't make a song and dance about my programming skills. Dangerous to end up doing shit work if you do that.
- ukit0
I prefer devigner
- fadein110
yes and its not good or what I set out to do.
but no alternativie to make decent money as a one man band.
wordpress helped a lot - suddenly didn't have to pay developers for CMS.
- GeorgesII0
I'm just an ector
- Bam0
designelope cruz?
- siaukia0
pro
-you get a lot of control on how you want the outcome to be, be it visually and structurally
-you are the man, sense of satisfaction from solving everything under your hand
-you fix your own ****, not others, imagine fixing some designer's misaligned typeface or newly updated image 2am in the morning
-all teh money belongs to youcons
-you need to do much more (2x amount of work)
-no one to talk to
-you need to learn extra more (2x)
-need to multitask
- detritus0
I'm sure you're the first.
There should be a ribbon, or something.
- Nightshade0
Yes that's what I do. Whilst I primarily trained as a designer I love to 'get my hands dirty' and code too, CSS PHP SQL JQuery, frontend, backend, whatever needed really. I find it rewarding designing a site and building it too, rather than handing it to someone else to finish.
It works for 'one-man bands' like me (www.joesmalley.com), and in very small design studios. Before I set up on my own, I worked in a 3-man studio where my job role was design and development. But the size of these small studios limits the size of projects worked on.
In larger studios/agencies, it obviously makes more sense to delegate design and development to separate people. Yes it means working on larger projects, but working on only design or dev.
So yes, hybrids do exist, but in doing everything it does limit you in other ways too.
Personally I am looking for another hybrid to team-up with to take on larger projects - a Saveloper - sales/developer - do they exist?!
- animatedgif0
Definitely beneficial to a have an understanding of development even if you don't get your hands dirty. Can tell when developers are trying to bullshit you.
Number of times I've had Flash developers making up silly excuses for project managers only to have me call them out on it.
- ernexbcn0
stewdio?
- chrisRG0
Yes, started as a Designer. But when Flash 4 came out I was astonished about its possibilities, then I started to code. After years of designing + actionscript i started on php/js/mysql so I could have better control of all my projects ;)
- siaukia0
I think the real question is...How long can you sustain that position until you totally burnout?
Inevitably, there'll be a transition period I'll turn to the management level where i'll be like... Managesigneloper? But I would still prefer to have hands-on in project and making sure it is coming out as expected.
- tOki0
Jack of trades, king of none?