15 things that drive web designers crazy
This is not a counterattack. And nothing personal with the talented coders just the obnoxious, haughty ones. This is just me standing up for all designers. All taken in right jest if you will.
So all you coders, get out of the box, get a life!
1. For all the creatively challenged coders, stop with the whining and lame excuses every time you see something that is evenly remotely new. A little bit of a challenge too much to handle?
2. Ok so we’ve established that you are design blind, but are you color blind too? Pick the right colors buddy.
3. Everything cannot be as boring as black and white. People actually care about design.
4. High time you learn to pay attention to detail. Its all in the details.
5. Rounded corners, gradients, shadows, we love it all. It looks good! End of discussion
6. Of course we tell you about fancy functionalities. If its out there, it IS possible, duh!
7. And yes we experiment with new stuff, its called staying up-to-date. So start reading.
8. And by the by, we are doing you a favor. Its not like you work hard at coding anyway. Most of so called “code” is either Googled or is an open source anyway.
9. Ever heard of optimising codes. Newsflash pages of code does not equal smart coding.
10. Carousels are in. Keep up will ya?
11. Stop whining about copy placement, if given, it will be used, until then we can all live with Lorem Ipsum.
12. Oh and for the record Arial and Lucida Sans are two different font styles.
13. Left aligned text goes LEFT, right aligned text goes to the RIGHT. Seriously you get it right.
14. Hitting the enter key usually triggers submission. Do you really need it spelled out.
15. And when you are done with snoozing around, please do not browse around see whats happening coz no one really cares about aesthetics and user experience and besides the less you know about it, the more important we seem.
End of the day admit it, we come up with really cool stuff and you get a kick out of getting them implemented.
This article has not been published anywhere, but sure is getting wired around.
A. G. Rufus said,
July 13, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Well written Blaize! Really blazing out! But the crazy cold war between the ‘coders’ and ‘designers’ will never end it seems.