Designers & Developers: Obsolete Titles in a Web-Made World
June 6th, 2008
Author: Michael Krotscheck
Category: Articles
Tags: design, development
An interview question I have been frequently asked in the past is: “On the spectrum of Designer < - > Developer, where would you put yourself?”
I’ve always been bothered by that question, because not only do I have a strong background in the Fine Arts, but I have 8 years of solid experience as a developer. The reason I don’t like it is that those of us who operate on the web apply both our creative and logical skills on a daily basis, and in many cases it is our creative streaks that make us so good at what we do. Problem solving skills and creative expression are absolutely inseparable: We learned this from Einstein, and Galileo, and Leonardo Da Vinci, and Thales, and Newton, and a host of other individuals who nowadays would be called the greatest minds of their time.
