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"I'm a guy, I don't care about colours" -- male DESIGNER
So, every Friday, I have a meeting in the morning with the group I've been put on that's in charge of creating non-blindness-inducing layouts for my entire branch. At first I was really nervous about being on this team because hell, I'm young, I'm new, and well, it's not like I'm extraordinary at design.
However, after a couple months of coming to these meetings, it is clear: I am on this group because the medium amount of talent I have in this field is just leagues above the current design talent in the department. This is REALLY DEPRESSING because seriously, I'm no genius here. I like to design, but my strength is all-around web development, because I like to play with code.
Nonetheless, every Friday you can count on me being pissed off 10 billion different ways at the incompetence here. My peeves include everything from gross offenses against aesthetics to the inability of the other designer on the team to understand this whole web standards thing. I swear, the man has no idea how to work with CSS. My previous rant on this mess is here.
I don't feel like ranting forever and ever about this subject today, so I will just include a couple of examples and a gem of a quote from this guy.
We were assigned different types of layouts to make.
I was in charge of making a layout for really data-heavy applications with lots of forms, tables, very deep menus. These layouts will mostly be used internally for applications, and won't be too visible to the public. At the moment, I have a very, very rough draft of a mockup. Certain elements I HAD to have (department regulations), like the white background, the simple border around the main part of the layout, the usability nav area in the upper right, the ugly-ass footer at the bottom. It still needs a LOT of typographical help, but this is the direction I'm headed:
[pictures removed after a few days]
The other guy, Erik, was in charge in making publicly available sites for things like announcing/arranging/signing up for conferences, public relations for various groups, etc. This basically means that people other than our branch (the general public) will see this design. This design is his baby and he loves it hard and, yes, the images here are the ones he wants to use, not placeholders:
[pictures removed after a few days]
Note that his layout wouldn't fit on an 800x600 monitor ever ever.
At one point, I brought up the issue of colour schemes, thinking I needed to create several different palettes for my design so each group could implement a unique colour scheme, and also because there was too much blue and I needed highlight colours. This guy's answer? Keeping in mind that he's a DESIGNER?
"I'm a guy, I don't care about colours."
...
Right.
Well, on a different note, I've been trying to finally come up with a layout for my personal site that I don't hate. I've been trying really hard to wean myself off muted/dark colours, and so I was trying to go for something bright and fun and clean. This is the current incarnation:
(click thumb for full size -- the actual screencap is super-wide so I can see how it looks on huge monitors)
It is FAR from finalized, but I think I like the direction it's going. Feedback is welcome =D
However, after a couple months of coming to these meetings, it is clear: I am on this group because the medium amount of talent I have in this field is just leagues above the current design talent in the department. This is REALLY DEPRESSING because seriously, I'm no genius here. I like to design, but my strength is all-around web development, because I like to play with code.
Nonetheless, every Friday you can count on me being pissed off 10 billion different ways at the incompetence here. My peeves include everything from gross offenses against aesthetics to the inability of the other designer on the team to understand this whole web standards thing. I swear, the man has no idea how to work with CSS. My previous rant on this mess is here.
I don't feel like ranting forever and ever about this subject today, so I will just include a couple of examples and a gem of a quote from this guy.
We were assigned different types of layouts to make.
I was in charge of making a layout for really data-heavy applications with lots of forms, tables, very deep menus. These layouts will mostly be used internally for applications, and won't be too visible to the public. At the moment, I have a very, very rough draft of a mockup. Certain elements I HAD to have (department regulations), like the white background, the simple border around the main part of the layout, the usability nav area in the upper right, the ugly-ass footer at the bottom. It still needs a LOT of typographical help, but this is the direction I'm headed:
The other guy, Erik, was in charge in making publicly available sites for things like announcing/arranging/signing up for conferences, public relations for various groups, etc. This basically means that people other than our branch (the general public) will see this design. This design is his baby and he loves it hard and, yes, the images here are the ones he wants to use, not placeholders:
Note that his layout wouldn't fit on an 800x600 monitor ever ever.
At one point, I brought up the issue of colour schemes, thinking I needed to create several different palettes for my design so each group could implement a unique colour scheme, and also because there was too much blue and I needed highlight colours. This guy's answer? Keeping in mind that he's a DESIGNER?
"I'm a guy, I don't care about colours."
...
Right.
Well, on a different note, I've been trying to finally come up with a layout for my personal site that I don't hate. I've been trying really hard to wean myself off muted/dark colours, and so I was trying to go for something bright and fun and clean. This is the current incarnation:
(click thumb for full size -- the actual screencap is super-wide so I can see how it looks on huge monitors)
It is FAR from finalized, but I think I like the direction it's going. Feedback is welcome =D