"Your program is stupid. It doesn't work," my wife told me
When programmers design web sites (comic)
Posted 16 years ago
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Steve Hanov makes a living working on
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jdk
three years ago
To be honest, this is better than approximately 100% of current websites designed by web people. (Except, of course, that it uses jquery, couchdb, a facebook connection, cloud nonsense, and css. I forgot cloud bs existed 13 years ago...)
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PaulG
16 years ago
Class.. Bet the first graphics are w3c logos.
Reminds me of what was pronounced the top uk gov website, least errors, best validation, usability etc.
Winner: An ambulance station in Scotland consisting of a single webpage containing just an email address and a tel no.
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John From
16 years ago
Yeah, now let's see a Web site made entirely by artists: No database backend (what's a database? How do you make one in Photoshop?), no Javascript. Nothing but HTML and CSS with lots of Flash, autogenerated by Photoshop and/or Dreamweaver.
The top Web site in the world, Google, is written entirely by programmers, and it shows: The site actually does something.
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RobHurt
16 years ago
Awesome :)
Not sure why so many people are taking offence to this - it's all in good spirit..
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James
16 years ago
So wait, programmers can't be designers or vice-versa?
Who created *that* totally artificial boundary?
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Karen Ramel
16 years ago
Hah! Does it mean I'm a geek if I know mostly what he's talking about and started to think: coooool?
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Jade
16 years ago
Ha, I'm the complete opposite, I have things I want to do with my sites with no idea how to get them there.
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bill
16 years ago
well i guess it just shows that you have to focus on one or the other. It takes forever to incorporate both. I guess design rules as long as there is some functionality to hold it up.
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Jonathan
16 years ago
No need for real UI or visual design, just slap "beta" on it and it's ok.
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Stefan Zdzislaw Camilleri
16 years ago
Hehe, so true! Now we need one for when a dev actually tries to design a UI :)
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Shaymaa
16 years ago
very true!!! so glad i am not alone here. but i do appreciate UI, that's why i save it for last. :p
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Paul
16 years ago
Subtext: The naive programmer is trying to do something original that they have some misguided belief will ultimately improve the world. For this they are to be ridiculed.
Message: Be a 'creative' designer, buy an Apple, work for a funky marketing agency and build gloriously bland websites by cutting and pasting cliched stock images into photoshop. It's so much cooler and rebellious to help corporations monetize consumers.
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BradB
16 years ago
I use jquery/flash to design blank screens all the time. Works great on server side.
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Deltaray
16 years ago
There needs to be another comic that is called "when non-programmers create web sites" that shows a hipster expressing a clueless face when their site gets hacked because they didn't secure it properly. And also not understanding why their website can't keep up with demand as it grows because they didn't make it scalable.
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nietzsche
16 years ago
i've learned that i have no tech friends by describing developments like that
i really do dislike UIs
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Mark
16 years ago
haha I just did that all last week. I developed a framework to easily create ui components. But the UI Components I made were pretty weak.
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