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Re:Google Images Restored by arp242 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:49PM (#25807031)
I think the shift in recent years has been from "UI designers" to "graphic designers". There is a massive difference between the two, but also a lot of conflation. Computer programmers may not be the best UI designers, but graphic designers are even less so, and the "but my art!" graphic designers are the absolute worst.
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Re:Google Images Restored by cvuls on Saturday January 16, 2021 @08:13PM (#25807143)
a main tenet of graphic design is sacrificing your art for functionality. i'm not sure what designers you've been speaking to, but i doubt they're professionals.
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Re:Google Images Restored by userbinator on Saturday January 16, 2021 @10:23PM (#25807789)
I think the difference is between "professionals" as in "gets paid doing this stuff", and as in "actually knows what they're doing".

As evidenced by the discussion here, there seems to be far more of the former than the latter.

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Re:Google Images Restored by oauea on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:49PM (#25825068)
That is still the wrong way to look at it. Functionality comes first, then you can make that look pretty. There should be no art in your UI.
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