Three days ago I attended FOWD.
The funny part was when I signed up. I had to choose what I was: designer or developer. And it got me thinking, what am I really? I know that if anyone would ask me, I’d say UI Engineer, cause that’s the title of my job. But that gives no answer to my question. I’d say that as a web designer you’re a bit of both. So considering that in the last few months I’ve been giving myself headaches with Javascript and XMLHttpRequests, I said developer. It took me half an hour to make up my mind though.
The conference started with Joshua Davis‘ presentation, whose artwork I already knew as being great. What I didn’t know was that he is a great speaker as well. I sensed in him the same joy and passion about his work as I do about mine. Sometimes when I get to make something to work or look the way I want to, I would jump around like a child and laugh. That’s the same feeling I got from Joshua Davis. A breath of fresh air and an awakening view on inspiration. Some while ago I told someone that a photographer has to always keep a fresh view on everything, like a child - like he sees everything for the first time. Joshua Davis extended that to the design. Some people said that he showed the same art as some time ago. I say that no matter when his artwork was done, it’s still cool. That must be the beauty of art, you don’t get tired of it.
Other presentations that I enjoyed: Ryan Singer from 37 Signals talked about usability and then Andy Clarke, Josh Williams & Jeffrey Zeldman, sparkling as always, discussed where web design is going to ( and if it’s ever coming back). I did want to meet Zeldman, but when I saw him there I was absolutely dazed, I lost my voice and my ability to move.
Elliot Jay Stocks had a presentation on the so called “web 2.0 look”. While he said things that I totally agreed and even wrote about a while back, I think people need to move along from that trap. Instead of focusing on “what a designer shouldn’t do”, I think people should be more willing to talk about solutions and new means of inspirations to escape those pattern websites. I don’t think that web designers are stuck on that “look”, maybe we’re all just up to something, taking some time to discover the next hit.
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Three days ago I attended FOWD.
The funny part was when I signed up. I had to choose what I was: designer or developer. And it got me thinking, what am I really? I know that if anyone would ask me, I’d say UI Engineer, cause that’s the title of my job. But that gives no answer to my question. I’d say that as a web designer you’re a bit of both. So considering that in the last few months I’ve been giving myself headaches with Javascript and XMLHttpRequests, I said developer. It took me half an hour to make up my mind though.
The conference started with Joshua Davis‘ presentation, whose artwork I already knew as being great. What I didn’t know was that he is a great speaker as well. I sensed in him the same joy and passion about his work as I do about mine. Sometimes when I get to make something to work or look the way I want to, I would jump around like a child and laugh. That’s the same feeling I got from Joshua Davis. A breath of fresh air and an awakening view on inspiration. Some while ago I told someone that a photographer has to always keep a fresh view on everything, like a child - like he sees everything for the first time. Joshua Davis extended that to the design. Some people said that he showed the same art as some time ago. I say that no matter when his artwork was done, it’s still cool. That must be the beauty of art, you don’t get tired of it.
Other presentations that I enjoyed: Ryan Singer from 37 Signals talked about usability and then Andy Clarke, Josh Williams & Jeffrey Zeldman, sparkling as always, discussed where web design is going to ( and if it’s ever coming back). I did want to meet Zeldman, but when I saw him there I was absolutely dazed, I lost my voice and my ability to move.
Elliot Jay Stocks had a presentation on the so called “web 2.0 look”. While he said things that I totally agreed and even wrote about a while back, I think people need to move along from that trap. Instead of focusing on “what a designer shouldn’t do”, I think people should be more willing to talk about solutions and new means of inspirations to escape those pattern websites. I don’t think that web designers are stuck on that “look”, maybe we’re all just up to something, taking some time to discover the next hit.
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