Re:It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks
by tipiirai on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:17AM
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The most recent HN gender poll made just few hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38031363
95% male.
Re:It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks
by 000ooo000 on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:26AM
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What relevance does the gender of <400 HN readers have here?
Re:It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks
by tipiirai on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:29AM
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Pretty strong considering the data from the earlier polls. I'm ready to bet.
>And, the boys in the industry at this time made it known that we were not "real" developers.
>the gendering of design as women's work is why people don't use the title "web designer" anymore. It's been belittled and othered away.
>Well, the area of front-end work, which has been heavily gendered as "feminine" work, was finally being viewed as "serious" or "real" programming because, to no one's surprise, something that is designed well is good for business. As a "real" career option for developers, now men are interested. You're welcome.
>Sorry, building websites is for us serious manly man engineers now who can do very difficult things like making the computers go beep boop.
>Since the "design" piece of web design is still viewed as a feminine role, that part of being a web designer was largely cut off from the front-end development role, now that men were all in on that role.
You are going to tell me that this person has any kind of numbers or studies to back any of this up? Show me something solid that says the majority male devs view web design as women's work. Until then it's just a rant.