Everyone could be a web designer. Few days ago I tried to explain what’s the difference between web designer, graphic designer, frontend developer, flash designer and flash devloper. Now it’s a great time to explain what is a characteristic of good web designer.
Time (not Times) surprised me… they built some kind of collection “50 Best Websites” in year 2009. However… what was the most surprise for me? That I didn’t ever hear about some of the websites, that was placed in top 10.
Do you know what is Photoshop? Oh, so you can even use it? That’s great. Do you know what is xHTML or CSS? Even better. So maybe you can even create some flash-based projects? Really nice. However… who exactly are you? Are you a web designer? Or maybe we should call you a graphic designer, frontend developer, flash designer, or a flash developer? Already lost? Try to learn what are differences between these positions.
New Nielsen’s Alertbox… about iterative design. They present five iterations (five rounds of iterative design) on a single tweet. Worth to read. More on Twitter Postings: Iterative Design
Few weeks ago I was looking for some website, that could aggregate my images. I was using Picasa Web Albums, but I don’t like it. I prefer to use it just for some kind of private photos, or something like that. I was looking for some kind of website, which could help me in creating collection of really well-designed websites or parts of websites. Flickr looks good, so that’s why I just started to using it.