Here is my (slightly less unhinged than I expected) musings on the current state of designing for the web.
Generally, I think we lost something when we stopped calling people web designers and forced people to pick a side.
https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10/why-your-web-design-sucks/
@hbuchel This is great.
Since code and design are inextricably linked — even more so now with JS frameworks — I think it is imperative for designers to understand at least some code. And for developers to have a handle of core design concepts.
Agreed we have lost a lot of what "web design" was. To fold it into code was a control thing and we have suffered for it.
@joshuaiz @hbuchel Worse than that. Tooling increasingly seems to want to tilt the amalgam that is “front-end” towards silly minutiae that isn’t front-end development & design at all.
“Vite is so hot right now” - & if you don’t agree, you can’t play front-end dev, actual skills be damned.
Tooling is a power-play, a needless graft to distract from the job our users wish we were doing, creating barriers to entry for those that don’t speak 1337.
Prove me wrong. 😉
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