[Sigia-l] What am I missing...

[Paola Kathuria]

Ziya Oz wrote:
> I don't think you'd want graphical artists coding your apps for deployment.

Indeed, I don't. But that doesn't stop graphic designers
fumbling with JavaScript and PHP to build sites by themselves
whilst having no clue how to write reliable, readable,
flexible or maintainable code.

> Why is it OK then to let people who clearly have no interest/aptitude in
> design to do the interface?

It's not okay.

> This is the most problematic notion of all. That somehow
> it's the programmers that "feed" designers, who presumably
> would otherwise go hungry.

No, umm, my point was that programmers aren't useless.

> Design is a systematic approach to creating products/services,
> not something one does to dress up what was concocted by
> programmers.

I agree. Design is a fundamental process that happens from
day 1 of a project and has little to do with graphic design.

Unfortunately, clients sometimes think that 'design' is an
optional extra, merely decoration at the end of a project.
So I avoid the term and just get on with my job as a user
interface designer.

I'm a psychology/computing hybrid, wishing that (graphic)
designers and programmers would realise that they need each
other.


Paola