Comments on: Will Software Ever Make Us Redundant? http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/will-software-ever-make-us-redundant/ Latest news and online thoughts of Graphic Designers Attitude Design Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:17:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Crys Odenkirk http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/will-software-ever-make-us-redundant/#comment-28304 Crys Odenkirk Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:44:02 +0000 http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/will-software-ever-make-us-redundant/#comment-28304 Well, printers aren't maybe the best example. Sure, there are lots of people calling themselves graphic designers who know how to open a quark file, but those people are regularly cursed by your average pre-press tech who routinely has to redo "camera-ready" layouts and artwork done by people who have no working knowledge of the mechanical side of printing. I know because that used to be part of my job, redoing all the supposedly camera-ready stuff submitted to the paper I was working at. Making something look pretty in Photoshop doesn't equate to being able to make something look just as good coming off the press. Instead of replacing hand coders (that's also me), I forsee us becoming the disgruntled support person working for the webhost who has to fix all the crappy code created by people who think they can create websites because they know how to open Dreamweaver. Oh wait, that's already part of the job... Well, printers aren’t maybe the best example. Sure, there are lots of people calling themselves graphic designers who know how to open a quark file, but those people are regularly cursed by your average pre-press tech who routinely has to redo “camera-ready” layouts and artwork done by people who have no working knowledge of the mechanical side of printing. I know because that used to be part of my job, redoing all the supposedly camera-ready stuff submitted to the paper I was working at. Making something look pretty in Photoshop doesn’t equate to being able to make something look just as good coming off the press. Instead of replacing hand coders (that’s also me), I forsee us becoming the disgruntled support person working for the webhost who has to fix all the crappy code created by people who think they can create websites because they know how to open Dreamweaver.

Oh wait, that’s already part of the job…

]]> By: Derek Kinsman http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/will-software-ever-make-us-redundant/#comment-26939 Derek Kinsman Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:21:18 +0000 http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/will-software-ever-make-us-redundant/#comment-26939 I'd say eventually programs like Dreamweaver, Frontpage and GoLive will come to a point where they will create valid, accessible, standards based markup, will be able to WYSIWYG their way through RoR, PHP, MySQL, ASP, Perl, Python, etc and do it quickly (you'll notice Dreamweaver lags a wee bit if you've got a huge site cached) and look good doing it. But I suspect that's a long way off. Adobe release a new suite every few years without any huge upgrades in between. Until that day, I'll be happy hand coding. I'll also be happy knowing that I can code by hand and all these new web developers can't. I’d say eventually programs like Dreamweaver, Frontpage and GoLive will come to a point where they will create valid, accessible, standards based markup, will be able to WYSIWYG their way through RoR, PHP, MySQL, ASP, Perl, Python, etc and do it quickly (you’ll notice Dreamweaver lags a wee bit if you’ve got a huge site cached) and look good doing it. But I suspect that’s a long way off. Adobe release a new suite every few years without any huge upgrades in between. Until that day, I’ll be happy hand coding. I’ll also be happy knowing that I can code by hand and all these new web developers can’t.

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