Open Source DesignIf you are a designer in open source: What do you wish you learned earlier about being a designer in open source? //jd
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️Explaining which parts of a mockup are placeholders and which parts are the intended design.
It drives me crazy when I post a mockup intended to show some element such as the layout, to have developers knock back the whole concept based on some detail that wasn't even intended to be kept in the final version, such as the color scheme, or placeholder text.
"No, I'm not actually suggesting that lorum ipsum be your new slogan..."
I find that often early drafts that are intended to indicate possible directions of further development, get axed because they don't look polished yet, but spending time on polishing the wrong concept is fundamentally a waste of time.
@Blort That is a very good point that seems to plague not only designers and programmers: "Is this to be taken as-is or just as a stand-in for something"? What seems to happen is that people "learn what is meant" but that takes time and many misunderstandings. //jd