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Pro Liked a comment on Layer Style Diet 4 days ago

Pro Pat Dryburgh commented 6 days ago

I find it much easier to dive in and get my hands dirty. Now, does that make me unprofessional, because my methods are against what you deem professional?

So, literally no time is given to consider strategy, information architecture, content, target audience, etc.? It doesn't matter that the solution requires 4 paragraphs of copy, you're going to make a text box that's only 300×60px? It's of no concern to you the context for which you're designing, whether it's a mobile application or a desktop marketing site? You'll figure all of that out as you push pixels around on a screen.

According to your answer, you spend no time up front planning how you will approach the problem you're facing. You create no list of deliverables, set no schedule for when tasks should be complete, and/or have no plan in place for connecting with developers or engineers should what you design need to be developed. I fail to see how any project can be successful without this work completed in advance.

Or am I forgetting that everything you say goes, being that you're a 'full time user experience designer', also, not to forget that you freelance too.

The only reason I mentioned this was to counter @Visual Idiot's claim that client work is banal, not to somehow give my argument weight over anyone else's.

I have never, and will never, claim to be the only one who knows what's right. In fact, the only thing I know for certain in life is that most of what I believe is wrong. I am learning, just as everyone else on this site.

In fact, I have learned from @Visual Idiot's previous work, and respect much of what he does (his work is often also very entertaining. Just this morning I literally laughed out loud at his "Just Use jQuery" site).

Design is an art form, no matter what anyone says. Everyone has different styles and methods to produce their work. Whichever method works for you doesn't make you or anyone anymore professional than the next person, or give you the right to state otherwise.

So then, design is absolutely void of criticism, introspection, and discussion? Because "design is an art form," anyone can do anything they want any way they wish? We should not hold ourselves to any set of standards, be they personal or communal? No need to set goals for a design if it is simply art. Everyone would be much happier then.

Edit: Forgive me for having to manually put your quotations in italics. It seems Dribbble no longer provides styling to blockquotes.
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Pro Daryl Ginn commented 6 days ago

@Pat Dryburgh I consider many problems, I just don't need to put pencil to paper in order to come up with a concept. I find it much easier to dive in and get my hands dirty. Now, does that make me unprofessional, because my methods are against what you deem professional? Or am I forgetting that everything you say goes, being that you're a 'full time user experience designer', also, not to forget that you freelance too.

Design is an art form, no matter what anyone says. Everyone has different styles and methods to produce their work. Whichever method works for you doesn't make you or anyone anymore professional than the next person, or give you the right to state otherwise.
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Pro Pat Dryburgh commented 6 days ago

@Visual Idiot As someone who is working full time as a user experience designer at a startup, while maintaining 10-15 hours a week of freelance work because I love it, I couldn't disagree more than client work is "banal." Each client project stretches me.

I believe it's good to try new things regardless of whether it's a client project, personal project, or if you're working on a product. New problems require new solutions.

It speaks volumes that you "just start off with the drop shadows, gradients, noise patterns," etc. Where is the strategy? The wireframing? The information architecting? A professional designer doesn't start in Photoshop and run to the styles layer. He/she also doesn't jump into black text on white and scan through type choices.

I am all for expanding stylistic range, but only so it serves to solve the problem. But, a designer isn't worth anything if all they can provide is surface-level style. A lack of substance won't make a minimal style any more effective than the glossiest of gloss.
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Pro Jeff Broderick commented 11 days ago

http://dribbble.com/site/handbook

Pretty sure everyone is within the rules. Can we get back to designing now?
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Pro Liked Balloon about 1 month ago
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Pro Commented on Feed about 1 month ago

no photoshop, as usual.

http://branch.com/people/ev
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Pro Liked a comment on Icomoon1 about 1 month ago

Keyamoon commented about 1 month ago

@Cemre Güngör Thanks a lot for the file. That SVG only has strokes/lines which intentionally get ignored by my parser. If you expand or convert your lines to fills, you will be able import it without problems.

But the fact that it was showing "loading" was a bug and I fixed it. It also shows an error message regarding the strokes.
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Pro Dribbbled kinect hacking about 1 month ago
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Pro Commented on kinect hacking about 1 month ago

cyberpunk stuff

full video: http://vimeo.com/40844114
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Pro Dribbbled kinect hacking about 1 month ago
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Pro Commented on kinect hacking about 1 month ago

i saw a cool video from chemical brothers and tried to replicate it with my kinect.

video of this: http://vimeo.com/40957126
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Pro Commented on Icomoon1 about 1 month ago

This file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/811105/envelope.svg

Thanks for finding out!
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Pro Commented on Icomoon1 about 1 month ago

the custom generator is amazing. however it balks at some of my files :( gets stuck at "loading"
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Pro Liked Icomoon1 about 1 month ago
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Pro Dribbbled Feed about 1 month ago
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Pro Liked a comment on Status Icons about 1 month ago

Pro Jeff Broderick commented about 1 month ago

Been working on some icons for another small side project. I think these came out pretty sweet.

The "construction" icons' yellow/black border will slowly spin. :D

What do you guys think?
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Pro Mathieu Strabach commented 2 months ago

That's nice, but pretty aggressive i think. I understand "GIMME YOUR MONEY YOU BASTARD". But it's beautiful and clean nothing to say about the style. It's about the message and the way to say it.
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Pro Dribbbled Share widget rebound as a rebound of Share widget 2 months ago
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Pro Didi  Medina commented 3 months ago

im in! see you all there :)
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