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Re:Hiring a designer is a premature optimization by Wolf_Larsen on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:37AM (#2969948)
And if a designer had a working product after the "architect" part, you'd see a lot more designer-only apps being built.

The fact is that a coder CAN get a working product up without the design-equivalent of "coding". They can lay out a UI just as well as an average professional designer (I would know), but the execution will certainly fall short of an average professional designer (I would know).

With that said, I'd always prefer to hire an excellent designer before building a UI, but I rarely will because I like to build more than I like perfect UIs.

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Re:Hiring a designer is a premature optimization by chc on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:40AM (#2969965)
If the execution falls short, I wouldn't say they did it just as well. Would you say a coder who creates a bug-ridden ball of spaghetti is just as good at programming as one who writes clean, correct, bug-free code, but just doesn't execute as well?
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