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Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks by udayaprakash19 on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:39AM (#5091631)
I am unable to understand your question, In the presentation I have just outlined how I learnt Photoshop to design elements in our mobile app.
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Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks by patothon on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:08AM (#5091765)
I'm just saying that, if you're a developer, isn't it better to directly code and ship an "almost okay" app in 1/2 week, get feedback and iterate than learning photoshop, wireframe, design, code and ship in 7/8 weeks?
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Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks by udayaprakash19 on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:13AM (#5091793)
In any case we had to get a design guy, even novice guys cost bomb, So I thought it was better spend a few weeks and learn.
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Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks by patothon on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:26AM (#5091849)
I understand that. But which one is better : 8 weeks to learn how to play with photoshop, or 8 weeks to learn about your market and users?
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Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks by aneth4 on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:46AM (#5091929)
If you end up with an app that is marketable and users will respect, the 8 weeks is probably worth it.

Besides, it's a skill that keeps giving. Now he cans spend the next week both writing and designing his next app instead of getting stuck with an ugly app and no designer.

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Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks by sagacityhappens on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:47AM (#5091935)
Not sure i follow your point.
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Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks by patothon on Monday January 21, 2013 @11:21AM (#5092094)
This guys are better than me to explain things probably : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/version-1-sucks-but... and http://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/07/if-you-arent-embarr...

But I get all you points guys, no problem, and I find amazing that he managed to do all of that by himself.

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