My apologies for all these confusing titles. It’s the best description for something short and accurate and also non-cloned. Yeah, this another article that I’ve read somewhere and it’s to reach out to all Malaysian who’d like to be in the web development field.
I was just over at We Break Stuff (cool name) and finished reading one of the articles, Between information and design. It’s something for every arrogant. ignorant and annoying people who refuse to keep up with the web and listen to people who do.
New web applications require much more than a good developer and a fancy designer. They rely on high amounts of information, and need people with the proper skills to think outside the box and make sense of it in a (obviously) pleasing way.
The designer should never be just a designer – because if you’re just a designer, you’ll be doing splash pages and hip teasers all your life (which is fine for some people, not fine for me at all). Think outside the box and change your way of thinking. If you’re a designer, or if you’re hiring a designer for your next super web hit.
This is where you imagine the countless times if you’re a web designer or developer, grabbing that mallet and banging it onto your client’s head like a nail. Though sometimes we need an even bigger mallet to hit ourselves on the head for ignoring the web.
It’s clear and it’s a fact that the web isn’t the same 2 years ago. Web designers can’t just remain as designers but cater to more expectations such as information design and as quoted, thinking out of the box to be able to solve certain website puzzles in presentation and content.
So do you just want to design templates all your life or look at weird code all your life without being able to think and contribute to a better Internet for Malaysia? Your choice.
Good point. I think many designers forget that this discipline – web or graphics – is about disseminating information. As much as the designs need to look good, they also need to be functional. Can’t have one without the other.