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Re:Hiring a designer is a premature optimization by martinkallstrom on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:05AM (#2969776)
I put more faith in alpha testing based on a design without a single line of code written, than on code without a single thought put into the design.
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Re:Hiring a designer is a premature optimization by ori_b on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:35AM (#2969933)
False dichotomy. Unless you're saying that a developer is by definition unable to think about design.

A developer might not do as good a job at it as someone who focused their career at it, but I would be surprised if developers couldn't put together something that was at least passable if they put a modicum of effort into it.

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Re:Hiring a designer is a premature optimization by martinkallstrom on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:36AM (#2969940)
I didn't say a designated designer needed to do the thinking.
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