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Re:Design for programmers by seanmcdirmid on Sunday September 21, 2014 @06:25PM (#8348546)
Design is also a very experiential field: you don't learn how to do good design, you eventually get good at it by doing it a lot. It helps to know some basics before getting started, but most of what design school does is force you to do a lot.
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Re:Design for programmers by jiggy2011 on Sunday September 21, 2014 @06:33PM (#8348561)
That sounds exactly like programming.
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Re:Design for programmers by seanmcdirmid on Sunday September 21, 2014 @07:56PM (#8348728)
Or any profession really - you have to put in the time. Which is why expecting a good designer to be a good dev or vice versa is kind of outlandish.
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Re:Design for programmers by modarts on Sunday September 21, 2014 @08:26PM (#8348786)
How is that different from progressing as a software developer? I learned 90% of what I know today from hands on experimentarikn
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Re:Design for programmers by seanmcdirmid on Monday September 22, 2014 @04:19AM (#8349706)
I didn't say it was different. I used "also" to mean the same; sorry if my wording was ambiguous.
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