- To create a master woodwork, a carpenter wouldn't just grab some wood and start nailing it together
- So too is it inappropriate to jump into the css file and start playing around with background colors
- When you go to "style the page"
- Like you're leaping from one point to another over a chasm, the distance of which has not been defined.
- Consider a banking application with a feature test:
test_it_transfers_the_money - There are some assumptions being made for this test to pass
- There are some unit tests that need to work in order for this larger chunk to become reality.
- There are some steps that need to be taken in order to get there. There are some questions that need to be asked in order to fill in the details between (1) draw a circle (2) draw another circle (3) draw the rest of the fucking owl. There are some steps to take, questions to ask to get from "app with data & html" to "style that page..."
... so, yes, design is a separate process.
- Designers of the (UX, UI, Graphic, Web Architecture, Content, Two-Dimensional etc.) Variety
- Constraints form the building blocks for the Elements and Principles of Design
- Persue it! There are great resources out there such as Hack Design (https://hackdesign.org), The Design of Everyday Things, or simply The Elements and Principles of Two Dimensional Design
- Fuck it! There are people out there, whole career paths designated for just this... so don't worry :) Let someone else handle it.
- Software design and visual design are aspects of web-application design that are impossible to disentangle.
- What we do as software designers and what people do as visual designers ... all comes down to purpose.
- From both ends of the spectrum we want to produce a specific result and only one thing matters -- How elegantly can we do it?