[paulhebert]

This shows a deep misunderstanding of what design is.

What you’ve described is “visual design” which is a subset of the design field.

There are many sub-specialties, but at its core design is about problem-solving, communication, and empathy.

There are a lot of bad designers who are great at making things pretty.

A good designer spends more time researching, understanding the problem space, interviewing users, brainstorming, etc., than pushing pixels around.

[KellyCriterion]

OP is right!

Most designers see themself above others because they are somehow good in putting different elements together and say: This is great.

And for whatever reason, even the most worst youngster designers consider themself to be gurus, like everybody who learnt coding yesterday wouldnt say "Im John Carmack".

Designers are a special type of people

[threethirtytwo]

The context of this thread is visual design for websites. Not design for off topic bullshit like furniture.

Also I agree with a lot of what you said. The only difference is I feel anyone can do it. The qualities you attributed to a good designer are trivial to learn. Make no mistake it takes time and effort to do these things and many companies neeed a specialized role where someone is only doing this thing…

But anyone can do it and learn it. And not anyone can learn how to program.