Today my laptop decided that it had enough of being carried around and working nicely as it should. The screen now displays a limited number of pixels so it seems the most fragile part of the computer – the only movable part – went sour. When the same happened to my last mobile phone I decided not to buy clamshell phones ever again. Unfortunately with laptops I have no such option.
Hopefully the hardware experts can extend the life of my loyal friend for a few months since this is not really the best time to buy a new one. Until then I’ll only be using the external monitor.
Fortunatelly I’ve been thinking ahead.
Today’s talk about design was easily one of the most interesting talks we’ve had on Spletne urice ever. Žiga really thought about the problem and formed the whole talk as a big metaphor to explain his point. Even with all he said I’m still left with a bunch of thoughts floating around my mind that popped up during the talk. In the end we actually ended up realizing that developers and designers actually have a common ancestor and that we’re just on different branches of historic development.
What we consider to be design is not only the shape, the colors, the fonts. This means we might fall into a philosophic debate about what design really is and who designers actually are. And I’m not going there now. What I know is that as you divide the work between people in a team you can’t just have one designer – everybody has to be a part designer. The sooner we all get to acknowledge this the better. And we need to expect it too.
