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› July 27, 2004
Code Think vs. Design Think
This is what happens when code-think is applied to design problems: web design survey. It's an interesting concept - but I don't think the results have much value. Back during the w3mix contest, I used a similarly code-think based method for the judges voting page. The difference though is that I was collecting numerical data based on already formed subjective thoughts of the judges - whereas this survey contains objective data about web pages and assumes that conclusions about design can be gleaned from it. I would guess that many folks who read this site are code-thinkers, please feel free to disagree with me in the comments.
UPDATE Well lookie here! Our first double post at webgraphics. I think both Tony's perspective and mine can co-exist here - why not.
Comments
1. July 28, 2004 11:46 AM
2. August 1, 2004 03:55 AM
J'ah'n Posted…
I got to that site through stopdesign.com today, and I was trying to figure out how to articulate what was wrong with the research. Thanks for articulating it so well. You couldn't be more spot on.
3. August 2, 2004 03:58 PM
Darrel Posted…
Well, I kind of said this in the other post, but programming/writing code *is* design. It's not GRAPHIC design, but it's certainly design.
As for the survey, it seems to me to simply be a small study on accepted norms of web site design elements. I'm not sure what, exactly, there is to contest other than the rather small sample set.
4. August 9, 2004 11:04 AM
Mark, web designer Posted…
I think we should differentiate design, the front-end, and the functionality, the back-end, the code itself . I think these are two complete different things which must never be mixed.
5. August 9, 2004 12:15 PM
phnk Posted…
... complete different things which must never be mixed
But aren't they conceived by the same person ?
Unless you have a designer which creates the template in Illustrator and a coder which writes the CSS (which already sounds strange, don't you think ?), code and design are the work of the same guy.
Plus, code teaches discipline (through syntax), which influences design. I believe code and design are mixed as a fact.
Egor Kloos Posted…
I agree, the survey doesn't seem to touch on core design issues. Nice idea though.