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How many designers do we have here?

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    How many designers do we have here?

    Not systems, architecture or anything like that - Visuals. Trained web/graphic designers, or those with experience/competence in this area, and especially experience of usability issues. Those able to string a user interface together that doesn't look ham-fisted, that conforms to acceptable standards.

    Just curious really.
    24
    I'm an expert.
    12.50%
    3
    I'm capable.
    20.83%
    5
    Only my clothes are designer.
    33.33%
    8
    I outsource to AndyW.
    33.33%
    8

    #2
    Originally posted by realityhack View Post
    Not systems, architecture or anything like that - Visuals. Trained web/graphic designers, or those with experience/competence in this area, and especially experience of usability issues. Those able to string a user interface together that doesn't look ham-fisted, that conforms to acceptable standards.

    Just curious really.
    I can use PowerPoint.

    HTH
    Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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      #3
      I work in the "digital media" industry, mostly as a PM or consultant type, so yeah I have a keen interest in all things web and interface design...
      Don't ask Beaker. He's just another muppet.

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        #4
        Xen, admit it - you ticked no. 3, didn't you.

        Powerpoint. Let's, for the sake of argument, leave MS office out of this.

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          #5
          You need another option, I chose i'm capable because I can knock together a bit of HTML and make something look OK (IMHO) but i'm not really a web designer. I also am not Andyw and I don't wear designer clothes...

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            #6
            Loughboro' Uni. Masters in Engineering Design.
            Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Interdisciplinary
            Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
            threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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              #7
              Originally posted by threaded View Post
              Loughboro' Uni. Masters in Engineering Design.
              Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Interdisciplinary
              Amazing what you can pick up on e-bay these days.....

              Does one of them look like Jesus, or the Virgin Mary?

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                #8
                Originally posted by threaded View Post
                Loughboro' Uni. Masters in Engineering Design.
                Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Interdisciplinary
                <sniff><sniff>Definitely something bovine...

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Ardesco View Post
                  You need another option, I chose i'm capable because I can knock together a bit of HTML and make something look OK (IMHO) but i'm not really a web designer. I also am not Andyw and I don't wear designer clothes...
                  If you can write properly-formed markup with clean styles used for positioning, and it's backed up with clean, optimised graphics - and the pages are tidy and captivating, readable and correctly ordered - then you're capable.
                  If you can design so the site's consistently a pleasure to intuitively navigate, and truly useful, and meet the above, then you're more than capable. Knit it to any CMS with fluidity in the pages and cross-platform/browser support, use alternative styles, integrate AJAX/Flex and dynamically generate said content while maintaining accessibility levels to P1 & P2, then you're expert.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by realityhack View Post
                    If you can write properly-formed markup with clean styles used for positioning, and it's backed up with clean, optimised graphics - and the pages are tidy and captivating, readable and correctly ordered - then you're capable.
                    If you can design so the site's consistently a pleasure to intuitively navigate, and truly useful, and meet the above, then you're more than capable. Knit it to any CMS with fluidity in the pages and cross-platform/browser support, use alternative styles, integrate AJAX/Flex and dynamically generate said content while maintaining accessibility levels to P1 & P2, then you're expert.
                    I can centralise and underline things in Word.
                    ǝןqqıʍ

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