Heather BuchelOct 25, 2023

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/

It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks.

Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers.

Show threadHeather BuchelOct 25, 2023
I wish I could do this topic a little more justice, and I did say I probably wasn't going to write anything until work settled down for the year. But here we are! Run-on and broken sentences and all! (probably)
Show threadAstrid SawatzkyOct 25, 2023

@hbuchel
Software development was considered women's work . Typing you know....
Hardware was men's work. Hard=male.

Then the industry found the money is in building software. And suddenly females weren't logical enough anymore to build software (and all the other crap)

We lost a lot when that happened.
Most of the sw pioneers are forgotten. Only a few of these women are mentioned and presented as extraordinary women, because she, as a woman(!!) , was a pioneer.
They all were.

Show threadAstrid Sawatzky

@hbuchel
Now we have initiatives for 'girls in tech' so they feel enough courage to dare to intrude into the men's domain of software development.
Really??

Teaching history in IT could help.

/sorry for the rant

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