designaboy
New Member
Graphic design is an essential part of all web-design projects, unless your building straight html website that look like they come from the 90's.
Apparently this is a controversial question, and fair enough back in the day, but in todays highly visual culture, I don't see how any web developer can really function without at least a fair understanding of graphic design and visual impressions on the web.
Especially with todays trends away from coding itself, and packages like Adobe Muse enabling print and graphic designers to build unique websites without code.
As an Australian web developer, I've learned to 'do it all' as that's how we do it here, and I am aware that designers are able to specialize more in the States an other parts of the world.
But even still, as a developer who likes to keep his finger on the pulse of the industry - I'm just curious to know if you would agree that graphic design skills/understanding have truly become an essential part of todays web developers skill-set?
All thoughts appreciated=)
Apparently this is a controversial question, and fair enough back in the day, but in todays highly visual culture, I don't see how any web developer can really function without at least a fair understanding of graphic design and visual impressions on the web.
Especially with todays trends away from coding itself, and packages like Adobe Muse enabling print and graphic designers to build unique websites without code.
As an Australian web developer, I've learned to 'do it all' as that's how we do it here, and I am aware that designers are able to specialize more in the States an other parts of the world.
But even still, as a developer who likes to keep his finger on the pulse of the industry - I'm just curious to know if you would agree that graphic design skills/understanding have truly become an essential part of todays web developers skill-set?
All thoughts appreciated=)