[thelist] Designer vs. Coder

[Daniel J. Cody]

Just to jump in on this and provide a bit of perspective with my own 
humble opinion..and brian brings up some good points..

Talking about the 'designer' vs. the 'coder' on this kind of list(web) 
will always cause some rucus.. Being more from the programming side(real 
languages.. *duck* ;) of the business myself, we have 'designers' and 
'coders' there too.. The guys/gals that write high level c and c++ 
applications can be split into the two groups as well. The people the 
have the high level view of how things should work, flow, etc. are the 
designers.. The geeks that actually do the shit are the coders. The 
hands on, the nitty-gritty.

Sure there are crossovers. But the crossovers become rarer the larger 
the project and the more detailed the work is. I mean, if you're 
designing a world class web site(lets say olympics.com) you probably 
have the code monkeys and the 'designers', seperatly. Same thing with 
applications.

At any rate, more often than not, we're more alike than we may like to 
admit and thats what counts :)

rambling,
.djc.



bsugrue at Automationdirect.com wrote:

> I think we tend to make this more complicated than it really is or will be.
> To remove some of the confusing designer/coder issues, I like to use a "low
> tech" model that is hundreds of years old AND actually profitable in some
> cases - the humble newspaper.