Thursday, December 4, 2008

Time Spent on Technology

My most recent client project tossed me headlong me into the programmer's briar patch. And there were some sharp thorns in there. C Sharp to be exact. (C# is the programming language of ASP.NET).

Digressions aside, there's an unmistakable Pyhrric thorn in a technical victory. Namely, it is not a visual victory. It is only part of the solution.

Design | Develop.

Web projects are a calico of the visual and the symbolic. Envisioning a project requires understanding it inside out. Learning the development side dispels the magic inside the application. When you have parsed it, it's obvious.

On the other hand, a technical project might drain visual creativity or vice versa. Math may diminish poetry, or medicine smoking. If a designer develops, can a developer design?

In a word, yes.

(but it takes more time)

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