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Developers Can't Understand Design

Jen Myers
November 09, 2012

Developers Can't Understand Design

(And Other Completely Untrue Design Myths)

Jen Myers

November 09, 2012
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  1. I make things pretty. I make things static. I make

    things without code. And by designer, I mean ... *
  2. I make things pretty. I make things static. I make

    things without code. And by designer, I mean ... *
  3. I make things pretty. I make things static. I make

    things without code. And by designer, I mean ... *
  4. I make things pretty. I make things static. I make

    things without code. And by designer, I mean ... *
  5. I make things pretty. I make things static. I make

    things without code. And by designer, I mean ... * I make things.
  6. You keep using that word. I do not think it

    means what you think it means. “ Inigo Montoya
  7. “ It’s not just what it looks like and feels

    like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs
  8. “ Developers, instead of planning and executing with their users

    in mind, end up creating technological solutions over which they ultimately have little control. Like mad scientists, they fail because they have not imbued their creations with humanity. Alan Cooper
  9. the digital native designer = a designer who understands how

    design works on the web and how to implement it