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Designing for web on A4 paper

published on
December 13th, 2006
by Marko Mrdjenovic

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.

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My name is Marko Mrdjenovič and I’m a web developer and a manager from Ljubljana, Slovenia (N 46° 03.246,W 14° 30.265).

I like solving problems. I do that by writing code, managing projects and people. I like creating good experiences. And going to conferences. I work at Zemanta. I do freelance UX/front-end/back-end work, available from March.

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