I recently wanted to link to some thoughts I'd posted previously, and it was shocking to realize just much my writing and attitudes have changed in the last year. I've been disinterested in the drama that seems to follow WordPress around. I made one last attempt to deal with the goings on at wankpress, but it seems that my comment is hanging out in indefinite moderation, much like she complains about at ma.tt:
I think it comes down to how designers and developers sell themselves, and the expectations put on them. Where a developer can talk about their skills, their contributions to a project, designers are expected to walk in with a portfolio of projects that they’ve designed from start to finish, on their own or as part of a team.
I think it’s also important that while software is great at iterating and evolving, design projects are delivered as a fixed quantity, and expected to work perfectly from day 1. I think there’s room for an open source design paradigm, but I think that much of the artwork for OS projects is delivered using a closed process.
To some extent, delivering it that way seems to work better for developers. They have one absolute standard to code against and solve, rather than having each revision in the design process necessitate many more code revisions.
I suppose since the company I work for is listed on the page she's wanking about, it's reasonable that I would be considered untrustworthy. I think it says more about that status of the wankery, though.
One Comment
Sorry about the delay in fishing your comment out of moderation. I haven’t actually logged in to wordpress.com for a while now, since we’re in a pre-release lull.
(Also added long-overdue pages widget so that the contact form is actually accessible. I’m so used to getting emails from drmike when his comments get sent to moderation I forget that not everyone necessarily knows my email address.)
Post a Comment