What web designers need most is empathy.
Showing websites that have internal battles. The battle to make a good website and the battle to make money. Sometimes the good content gets buried due to trying to make money.
It doesn't matter how good the content is, if it doesn't look good and isn't easy to use the good content won't be found.
Make a link look like a link. It doesn't have to be blue and underlined but there should be a consistent link style.
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Web designers have to be motivated to keep learning. Good education is hard to find.
College can teach you CSS and HTML but they don't teach you everything you need to know. They don't teach content and layout etc...
They made a web design survey, we all took it, we know.
From the survey they saw that the more money you make the less your field of study in college mattered.
People making lots of money didn't study web design in college.
BUT older people make more money and they didn't have those programs back then.
Web designers get no respect. Architect, attorney or surgeon get lots of respect. No one gets web design, they don't understand what's involved.
They think we sit in our mother's garage in our underwear using Front Page.
There are no standard titles on the web, it's not like saying you're an attorney.
Very different titles based on where you work. One will call you Web Master, one will call you a Front-End Developer.
Who owns the website?
You don't usually own the sites you work on. You're not accountable, morally etc..
Companies always base the website on the org chart.
Creative people are at work but they're being beaten down. Rejected by clients, lawyers...|
Web designers don't get paid well, unless they're at the top. Lots making $20,000 and very few making $80,000.
If web design is a new job are there new rules? No, they're treated the same as everyone else.
Gender bias (women make less). Women who believe there is a gender bias make more than women who believe there isn't.
There aren't really any good awards that take into account usability, empathetic design etc...
The type of web design that is awarded by graphic design magazines is not an example of good web design.
The webby awards. Websites with videos on them. Nothing really to do with web design.|
The news media. They only report on sites that make money.
"Why isn't there any landmark web design?" Like, the Led Zeppelin of websites.
A website that's like water. Clear, transparent.
Great web design, simple, out of the way, easy to use.
The "guitar solo" approach to web design. How much "zazz" should you put in your design
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Matt
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