It’s finally happened, I’ve officially become an aloof designer…
A friend was showing me the design of a background image they were gonna use for a website and I went off on how repeating background images (this was diagonal lines packed close together) draw the eyes away from the actual content and then how they shouldn’t be using tables because CSS is so much better than basic tables… And to cap it all of I suggested a much more minimal design, less is more and all that.
And then it hit me… All my time in Dreamless, o8, YayHooray and HumHum has made me an aloof designer, seemingly incapable of helping people “below” me, but they’re not below me. The sad, and somewhat ironic, part is I wouldn’t be here without the help of other aloof deisgners, they turned me into a fellow aloof designer but now I’m bitter, jaded and unable to design “cutesy” sites, it all has to be standards complient, valid XHTML & CSS, minimalistic designs or else…
What have I become?
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3 responses to “*SNAP*”
Oh god, don’t. I’m incabable of not looking down at people who are not yet ‘enlightened’. Sickens me slightly.
Q. “What have I become?”
A. A DOBBER!!!
DesignSnob.
I gave up on the whole validating and compliance thing a while back when: a.) it took me four times longer to develop anything. and b.) the work that would “validate” didn’t hold it’s look across other platforms.
I totally see the need for standards compliance, I just don’t want to be the one that has to comply with it.