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by knieveltech 5408 days ago
If someone has to be forced to learn/use the underlying medium then there's nothing to destroy, they don't have the skillset to to do the job to begin with and they should probably just stick to doing print layout.

Having worked with designers ranging in skills from pure photoshop all the way to writes app code in addition to markup, CSS and javascript, in my experience a designer that doesn't have a solid understanding of raw markup, CSS and javascript is a liability.
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folletto 5407 days ago
I worked with lots of excellent designers that aren't able to write a single line of code. And still paired in a good team with a developer, they did marvels. :)
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knieveltech 5407 days ago
So what you're saying is it's cool for someone to only learn half their job if you've got other warm bodies available to cover for them. Eh.

Taken to an extreme this is similar to you saying I'd make an excellent plumber if I could drive the truck and had a couple of helpers that actually knew how to do plumbing.

You can't tell me with a straight face that a designer that doesn't have a solid grasp of the underlying principles of how front end code works isn't going to (at least occasionally) end up cranking out the worst sort of pie-in-the-sky speculative horseshit that's a rugged nightmare to mimic on the web, and every time they do they end up taking a big ass bite out of the project budget when the rest of the team is scrambling around trying to sort out the cross browser issues with the hot mess of a design comp they've just been handed.

I'll pass, thanks.

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folletto 5395 days ago
That's a nice metaphor, but no, we aren't saying that you are doing a job, and actually you don't know how do to it and you have someone else doing that for you. The plumber metaphor is flawed.

I can tell you, because it happen every day. It happens to me every day. And if you don't believe me, just read around the comments from people, here and on the article page, that do exactly that.

By the way, there are also comments of people saying that designer must think a bit over what's technically possible, to innovate. Figures. ;)

The problem however isn't in agreeing or not, but in not being so sure that your point of view is the right one.

And I'm talking with a straight face, yes. :)

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