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Battling the “designer ego”

Posted on 2 October 2009 in Design | View Comments

I was in my friend Jemma’s art gallery today (shameless plug!) and she made a statement about artists who think they’re better than they are. Not her artists, if any of you are reading!

I got thinking about how that applies designers as well. The designer ego is essential and we all have it. If we thought our design skills were crap and that our work wasn’t worth being proud of, we wouldn’t make websites.

The trick is, then, to keep our swollen heads from exploding. I’m no saint, but here’s how I handle it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Print-Turned-Web Designers

Posted on 5 December 2008 in Design | View Comments

When I was a freelance web designer, I had to take work as it came in, which often meant converting PSDs into CSS & XHTML. I have always found it frustrating to code up a design that has obviously been done by a print or graphic designer, and by that I mean anyone who calls themself a web designer and doesn’t know how to code CSS and XHTML (Dreamweaver design view and Frontpage don’t count). I don’t mean to discredit their talents or creativity, but there are certain web design rules that these designers don’t seem to ‘get’. Read the rest of this entry »

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Why can’t we all just get along?

Posted on 4 December 2008 in Design | View Comments

A while back, Vitamin blogged about the communication barrier between designers and developers. Having worked with quite a few developers, I thought I’d answer the questions that are applicable to me. Read the rest of this entry »

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