The Designer Uprising
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- raf0
I wonder what you'll make of Andy Rutledge's "Design Professionalism":
http://www.designprofessionalism… — full text online, also available as paid ebook
- Knuckleberry0
I just stood up to start the "uprising" but nobody else in the office did... I don't think they knew... damn.
- vaxorcist0
interesting... I am reading it now.... I can agree with most of what I've read, but convincing certain clients to think this way may not be easy...
- ********0
Neoliberalism innit?
- jaylarson0
i like turtles
- ukit0
Eventually machines will take over
- akrok0
can't we just send "questine", he will ask them so many question they will give up.
- but who is "them"?********
- them = usukit
- This will be revealed in the horrifying final scene of the movieukit
- We are all 'them'. Tanpopo, too.Continuity
- but who is "them"?
- monkeyshine0
I think the change has to come on the client side. We need to offer clients something they can't get from these one-off sites.
That something is a partnership. We need to offer more depth and breadth in our design solutions. You might call this service design, or the very trendy "Design Thinking" (I hate that stupid big "D" big "T" term, btw).
In my opinion this is the area where independent designers have historically fallen short in working with clients. We take on logo projects (an ala carte approach, IMHO) without proper research and connecting the brand thinking to broader business, identity objectives. We give clients 5, 10, 15 different logo choices...sometimes not really defining the different approaches in anything beyond aesthetic preference.
Offer more. Some clients don't want it and those are the clients who should go to these sites because they have no clue.
- Precisely. As long as good design exists we will be ok.monospaced
