DOUGLASS: Eliminate the webmasters, programmers and designers, and who is left? The core maintainers. Now we know your secret plan, Dries!
HA! HA! HA! (Like most things that are hilarious, there may some truth hiding under this rock.)
DRIES: The color picker in Drupal 5 is a great first step at eliminating the designer.
Someone needs to rewrite the color.module to make it more usable.
About the designer's job : I admit that I sometimes get devious pleasure out of seeing some people strain with CSS and tableless layout and more intense pleasure at the sight of the amount of ugly designs out there. I think that *on some level* I want the whole thing to be very hard to grasp for the common man. I am 35, my hair is turning gray, I live in a huge capital, all I have going for myself is my brain, and because of my insecurities, on some level I derive pleasure from the complexity.
I also like to massage my brain with complex things. And after some hours of massaging, I often find myself wondering : ohhh-kayy... was it useful that I understand this inside out ? Will that serve me ?
On some other level, which probably has a stronger 'say', I want all this technology (and design!) to be easy. I want people to have an easy time and and an easy life, and want everything to be more accessible for all.
I have a split personality.
PS : Dries, why don't you add the <blockquote> tag to your accepted tags...?
DOUGLASS: Eliminate the webmasters, programmers and designers, and who is left? The core maintainers. Now we know your secret plan, Dries!
HA! HA! HA! (Like most things that are hilarious, there may some truth hiding under this rock.)
DRIES: The color picker in Drupal 5 is a great first step at eliminating the designer.
Someone needs to rewrite the color.module to make it more usable.
About the designer's job : I admit that I sometimes get devious pleasure out of seeing some people strain with CSS and tableless layout and more intense pleasure at the sight of the amount of ugly designs out there. I think that *on some level* I want the whole thing to be very hard to grasp for the common man. I am 35, my hair is turning gray, I live in a huge capital, all I have going for myself is my brain, and because of my insecurities, on some level I derive pleasure from the complexity.
I also like to massage my brain with complex things. And after some hours of massaging, I often find myself wondering : ohhh-kayy... was it useful that I understand this inside out ? Will that serve me ?
On some other level, which probably has a stronger 'say', I want all this technology (and design!) to be easy. I want people to have an easy time and and an easy life, and want everything to be more accessible for all.
I have a split personality.
PS : Dries, why don't you add the <blockquote> tag to your accepted tags...?
April 11, 2007 - 23:49