do you care?
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- OP310
is it a millennial mentality to "do what you love" as your job?
My parents never had the choice and just tried to succeed, and my grandparents were blessed to just have work no matter what it was. I'm sure they all "cared" about their work.
- studderine0
I just think being a designer is different and always has been different. Not saying other professionals lack care or passion, but, I don't know, it's just different.
- i agree. my mom still doesn't understand what i do lolOP31
- omg0
When you are designing your baby, then you tend to care about it.
- monospaced0
I think that when it's a part of you, that you can't help care. Same thing that got some people through design school and caused others to struggle and drop out. Either you have the passion, or you don't.
- monospaced0
Design, when in its close-to-pure form, is really fulfilling. When design can be used to educate (the client, the audience) on top of communicate, it becomes worth it. That's my opinion, and it's why I love doing this. That's why I care.
- http://www.logo-desi…yurimon
- why are you posting that?monospaced
- its pure formyurimon
- so you're not a designer then?monospaced
- plus it has martial arts in it making a pun on form..yurimon
- that's what I thoughtmonospaced
- im only half serious..yurimon
- yurimon0
I care about what I do because what I do saves lives.
- doesnotexist0
caring more about the things that influence design: strategies, expectations, goals.
- dirtydesign0
Sounds like you should consider a management type position.
- mg330
What I care about, though I'll never take the time to do anything about it, is that there exists a huge amount of people who don't even know what looks good, or what good functionality is, or what the word "modern" means. That goes for designers AND the people that buy their services.
The thing that really bothers me is that in a day and age where EVERYTHING is available on the Internet to learn, consume, be inspired by, steal, there are so many people churning out absolute dog shit websites because they don't know any better. And their customers don't know any better either.
I'm not saying everyone has to be the ultimate consumer of modern design, modern standards, or adhere to some design style that people like us follow, but would it hurt some people to learn CSS? Learn to use web fonts? Stop using tables and frames? Stop building sites altogether and just buy a modern template and skin it, especially if it comes with responsive layouts? Make all the buttons on a site match and have clear queues about their purpose? Stop using garbage low-res images? Stop falling for these ridiculous hosting provider plugins that create a mobile site on the fly with a horrible disjointed look and feel?
IT SHOULD NOT BE IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE A DECENT LOOKING WEBSITE. Something that at least looks relevant to the last 5 years.
So yeah, that's what bums me out. That all this info is out there, and yet some people are clueless about staying modern and current with technology and design.
- are you talking about design, or HTML?monospaced
- because while HTML website design is part of design, it hardly encompasses itmonospaced
- btw, I really respect your outlook on all things designmonospaced
- Thanks mono! I guess i mean design altogether but more-so web in this case. But the same can be said for print design.mg33
- look at this piece of shit: http://tinyurl.com/k… someone made a killing on this site and it's fucking hideous._niko
- canoe0
Dude, WTF, you're using "modern" instead of contemporary and at the same time telling people that they don't know what modern REALLY means. Modern is fucking gone, I wish people would get a clue.
- omahadesigns0
Because bad and amateur design bothers me.
- omahadesigns0
It is fun sometimes and easy sometimes and I don't want to do research or be a doctor or dig ditches.
- MrT0
I still care, but the amount fluctuates and is usually smallest when rolling out some fuckstick corporate strategy piece about 'Being the Reason'.
I'd also love to have some other 'real' business too/instead but we can't ALL do that...
- cannonball19780
Do I care about it as the outcome? No. Am I interested in it as a vehicle and method for the things I do care about? Yes.
- freedom0
WE all are going to die and 99% of us won't be remembered for long, but you got to do something with your life.
Life is pretty pointless if you don't take pride in what you do or you waste your time.