You are not a Designer
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- chrisRG
Not sure if it's been timeline, couldn't find.
Even states a QBN threat, but then the link is broken.I was going to save this, but it ties in nicely with today’s post by Nils Geylen, Design is history, so study.
Going through almost any online design gallery, a majority of the sites are portfolios for design studios and freelancers. When I come across these sites I like to look at the other work done by the designer to see if there are other sites I can draw inspiration from. Rarely do I find any. This can’t just be a case of clients ruining the work of a designer, this seems more like a case of one hit wonders.
- d_rek0
That's some real poor editorial about stuff that barely matters to real design professionals.
/me re-blogs this
- bored2death0
It's rare to find places that are actually seeking a "Designer" these days. Most want someone who offers design as part of the bundled package. When I see job postings for "designers" it's usually followed by a list of technologies: xhtml/css/javascript/AE/3-D/Flas... The core skills of a "Designer" no longer have value.
"design" has come to mean what programs you know and not how you think. The multiple skills a designer used to have to possess have been divided up into UX/UI/Interactive/etc. Am I an expert in UX? No, but I do understand how to structure complex information so that people can easily understand it. Would that get my resume a second look these days? Not a chance.
Businesses want software operators.
Clients want software operators to execute their visions.
- popfodders0
^ could be said of anything.
Looking for a Front End and Back End person. Such a joke or SEO / SEM wrapped in as well. It's BS.
- vaxorcist0
There are always people who know software but can't design anything and don't have a concept of actual marketing process or communication of a big idea... some workplaces like the lack of backbone or questioning attitude.....
But also beware that job descriptions list the "official" part of the job, whereas the invisible, more important part REALLY IS often design oriented, they just can't really express it in an ad, which is usually written by a bunch of HR "professionals" and NOT the actual people doing the hiring.......
It does seem that many companies are afraid of hiring a "design person" who doesn't "really know the software" because they think that's the "deadline bottleneck" rather than their own random and contradictory specifications which are usually the real reason a project is over deadline.....
- plash0
how about..You Suck At Photoshop
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/You…- LOL @ the brown van stuff, fucking brilliant vid!rosskemp
- Haha, that was fundawplucker
- Maria23x0
Some good points here. But the article is so badly written. He is so vague about 'those' types who can't design.
- Maria23x0
I don't like the way companies mash two job roles of designer and programmer together. I wouldn't expect Jonathan Ive to actually build an iPhone. But I do expect him to work closely with the people who di and know about specific materials.
- fresnobob0
says it all...
- Josev0
"Going through almost any online design gallery, a majority of the sites are portfolios for design studios and freelancers. When I come across these sites I like to look at the other work done by the designer to see if there are other sites I can draw inspiration from. Rarely do I find any. This can’t just be a case of clients ruining the work of a designer, this seems more like a case of one hit wonders."
I stopped reading after this paragraph. It's such a sweeping statement and comes across as being arrogant. I mean, where are these design "galleries" where he cant find any good work? Maybe he doesn't know where to look. Would he say the same of CommArts online showcase? Or maybe HE doesn't have an understanding of what is good design.
- i_monk0
tl;dr – I'm a designer and you aren't.
- mikotondria30
"How many designers know about kerning and the psychology behind colors? How many designers understand the principles of typography and white space?"
Every designer and user knows these principles, if they are enacted properly it looks like shit. "That's the wrong color", you think, so you either change it until it's right, or you've taken the short cut and explicitly learned rules to save time through experience, talent or from someone else at college, work or in a book.
"That text is all off, look at the space between the t and the r" you say, and fix it. You don't even need to know that it's called keming.
No one needs to know what other people call these principles. You don't need language to dance, paint or even drive a car.
- jon_d0
I find that a designer with a strong portfolio and bad client work may have communication issues overall.
They may also just have impossible clients.
But communicating your ideas and proving them feasible is a huge part of the game.
Maybe this article implies that designers are not communicating fully.
- drgs0
youre a writer then?
- plausible0
'Ever walk into an art museum and you see the pretty paintings, then you come across one that looks like a kid threw a wet paintbrush at the canvas? You stand there wondering why that painting is there...you could have done it. Then some art enthusiast walks by and mentions how the painting is actually millions of dots made to look like splashed paint. You might wonder why someone would create a piece of art like that but you understand WHY the painting is there.'
Um. No.
- noob123450
Thank God, designers get paid shit. Change your title to Art Director as quickly as possible. Then you can just drink and smoke all day.
- canoe0
...the wandering words of a half-baked pseudo intellect...
- omg0
there is a difference between art and design.
- hektor9110
bullshit I love my profession and it will never die, it will evolve maybe, but it will never disappear