Comment Re:Preference (Score 1) 214
I have to say, I totally disagree with you on that one - print design is totally different to web design in many respects.
For a start, a print designer is working within a fixed area that will always look the same no matter what (well, unless you rip it up!).
With a web designer you need to accept that your design may be viewed at a million and one different screen resolutions, on different platforms and browsers which may render fundamentals such as text or user interface controls differently. On top of that, the implementation of said design now requires you to think about this, and things such as SEO etc.
You also have more fuzzy things, based around interaction. For print, perhaps you want to use embossing or other techniques to make the design feel a bit special. For web, I tend to thing its around how you can interact with a sites functionality (usability, learnability...) and also how well site and browser merge (form autofill, scrolling, copy, paste).
These fuzzy things are often where many Flash-based sites tend to fall down, either perhaps by introducing alien concepts for interactions for the 'coolness' factor, or ignoring these all together with content you cannot copy and forms which you can't autofill - all amounting to a different/jarring/bad user experience.
A good designer for either medium is one who is fully aware of these constraints, and works with them. Although a good print/web visual designer may be able to produce appealing sites, they will often not have a solid understanding of the medium and the nature of interaction, which is where things may fall down.
For a start, a print designer is working within a fixed area that will always look the same no matter what (well, unless you rip it up!).
With a web designer you need to accept that your design may be viewed at a million and one different screen resolutions, on different platforms and browsers which may render fundamentals such as text or user interface controls differently. On top of that, the implementation of said design now requires you to think about this, and things such as SEO etc.
You also have more fuzzy things, based around interaction. For print, perhaps you want to use embossing or other techniques to make the design feel a bit special. For web, I tend to thing its around how you can interact with a sites functionality (usability, learnability...) and also how well site and browser merge (form autofill, scrolling, copy, paste).
These fuzzy things are often where many Flash-based sites tend to fall down, either perhaps by introducing alien concepts for interactions for the 'coolness' factor, or ignoring these all together with content you cannot copy and forms which you can't autofill - all amounting to a different/jarring/bad user experience.
A good designer for either medium is one who is fully aware of these constraints, and works with them. Although a good print/web visual designer may be able to produce appealing sites, they will often not have a solid understanding of the medium and the nature of interaction, which is where things may fall down.
