Webdesign Job Qualifications list
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- mantrakid0
Passion, curiosity and interest. otherwise its downhill from day 1, no matter how much technical ability they have.
More of these people out in the wild are fine as they are the ones who drop the ball on every single client they get leaving them to all find someone new / someone who wont fuck them over... But you do not want them working for you without those criteria. thats my experience.
- doesnotexist0
you don't need these
- HTML and CSS (CSS3/HTML5 a plus)
- Knowledge of Javascript a plus
- Knowledge of jQuery
- Motion and video editing experience is a plus- web designer or web developer?doesnotexist
- Motion and video editing experience is a definite minusnb
- This has been a source of confusion since the earliest days of the web. A designer is not a developer.CyBrainX
- nb0
• Must have the false assumption that graphic design is an important career
- nb0
• Must know how to make bullets in a forum post
- ETM0
So if so many believe that some of the more basic front-end dev stuff (html/css) are NOT part of a web designer's job, what do they do?
No where, other than maybe in the large agencies can I imagine someone who only does static design for web and little else.- I would be unsatisfied to not be more in process of bringing my design to interactivity.ETM
- i never touch html or css, though i know it. only the 'artwork,' and i work closely with the devs. i'm at a small agency and i've been at big ones.doesnotexist
- and have worked at large ones.doesnotexist
- Sounds dull.ETM
- Amicus0
^^^^^ @ mantrakid
yes... but the idiots eat away at budgets and confidence leading to micro managing by clients, and we know where that leads – the seventh level of hell.
- ohhhhhsnap0
thanks for the thoughts you all
- ohhhhhsnap0
Prime example, "Ability to code..."
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- fadein110
everyone forgot design, typography etc.
- Why would you need that when you can do the HTML?qTime
- if you don't know typography basics... i think your HTML/CSS type will be doodooohhhhhsnap
- fadein110
you may not need to know how to code jquery but if you are not aware of it your web design may be shit (along with motion, html5 etc.)
- agreed. but motion eh? what programs would you suggest?ohhhhhsnap
- after effects is my favorite tool for motion, throw in some c4d if necessary.Hombre_Lobo
- Hombre_Lobo0
As a novice web dev and designer, I hear a lot of people saying that a web designer should have code skills.
One perspective is in a perfect world the dev and design should be separate, you have a shit hot designer and shit hot developer.
But then their is that argument that a designer should know code so they can understand how their design will take shape and how it will be approached as a developer.
But doesn't that cause a bigger problem of working within the limitations of your software?
You should design it to best suit it's purpose irrespective of the build process.
I suppose that sounds ok, but in practice your gonna have some sweaty developer dribbling "it can't be done arrggh" at your desk every 5 minutes.
- Should a furniture designer be able to build his designs? No, but must know his materials, joinery, etc.raf
- No, design fully and code fully, it's not that hard to keep up and be good at both.mikotondria3
- Yes, a good furniture designer should know how to build the fucking furniture themselves!nb
- They don't need to do it, but they better know how it's done!nb
- Once upon a time, it was expected to know both.ETM
- nb0
A good web designer needs to know HTML/CSS principles. You need to know what is possible and what isn't possible so you can limit your design when necessary, or so you understand what sort of cool shit you (or the dev) can pull off. It'll help you guide you in the design and planning stages.
You should be thinking about how the HTML/CSS will work in your design from the very beginning of the project.
If you think it's hard, it's only hard because you don't know it yet. You've learned Photoshop, InDesign, Fireworks, etc? You can learn HTML/CSS. You can learn it by reading two books and building a couple shitty websites. Do one or two for a friend or find a charity or cause in your neighbourhood that needs a simple calling-card site.
It's a relatively tiny amount of work for the benefits you'll gain from having that knowledge. Your web designs will improve a lot.
- yurimon0
Must be committed and have ability for timely delivery and sentenced to dead lines. Deadicated passion a must.
- vaxorcist0
I predict 2 types of designer gigs...
1. Big agency, where you really can hand-off a PSD, but it's actually with carefully named layers, and the designer knows:
Not to engage in "I want it to look EXACTLY the same everywhere on every device nonsense".. like some print designer who has a 27 inch monitor and doesn't realize laptops and ipads and phones are different....
Not to hand off a "3 wheel drive car" type of design to a developer... i.e. even this sort of designer knows they're writing specifications for something that has to be possible... and hence they may even be able to write a short "proof of concept" code, or link to somebody else on the web showing how they want things to work....
BUT for this agency designer, a HUGE part of their work is to PITCH to clients, to PITCH to creative directors and to defend ideas, to instill confidence, to be able to sit in meetings and say what is and is not possible on a deadline, for a budget,etc.... because account staff still don't know jack about coding timelines.... even if this designer isn't a code-head, he/she should know a rough guess of how long things take....
---and---
2. The "usual" sort of coder/designer/smiler/coffee-mak... designer we're all turning into, where you calmy do all sorts of things on a deadline and make it all look seemless, constantly learning new stuff and having no diva attitude at all...
it's not so much knowing the alphabet soup of current tech acronyms... , but the willingness to grow, and not just fixate on a "panacea" technology that can do it all... i.e. whatever is right for the project, rather than whatever you happened to know and shoe-horning that into the clients supposed needs....
...and....
- ohhhhhsnap0
•Ninja-level proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop.
- can't imagine working for a company like thisohhhhhsnap
- I don't see what the problem is.Frosty_spl
- got that "Ninja-level" competency?ohhhhhsnap
- boobs0
There are only a few pertinent questions:
1) Can you do this shit?
2) Fast?
3) Accurate?
4) Do you show up on time?
5) Do you show up sober?
6) Can you keep out of other people's way?
7) Can you say something a little funny once in awhile so we don't all go fucking crazy with boredom?
- ohhhhhsnap0
"SCSS/SASS/Compass a big plus"
- aka. you will be changing colours on a UI toolkit like senchamonNom
- utopian0
WTF No Juggling?
- love CSS... trying to put SCSS and SASS in to play with my website... not so easy.ohhhhhsnap
- ohhhhhsnap0
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- dbloc0
Must be proficient in profanity.