Entrepreneurship is a journey and so is every aspect of it, right from the time you start thinking about the idea, to designing and finally to development and deployment. During my experience, one thing keeps coming back to me; there is no golden rule for success but nonetheless every experience teaches you new things. In this blog of mine, I try to speak about the challenges I face as an engineer trying to manage the artistic side of product development, that is the UI design.
Art is different from engineering and so are artists from engineers. I recently had experience working with a remote designer from Vietnam for one of my website designs. The more creative a person is, the more eccentric and whimsical he is.So far he has done a great job and I am looking forward to deploying an awesome website in few days.
During this process I learnt a few lessons which I would love to share.
1) Design is a very creative process and trying to manage it using typical project management methodology/process is almost impossible. You need to be more patient in terms of deadlines and always be ready to cut them some slack. In an artistic process, you might not get the right thoughts instantaneously, but you have to let yourself the time to understand and visualize them. Putting unneeded stress on the designer will chip him away from these thoughts.
2)Designers are sensitive about feedback. It might be just one page for you, but it takes a lot of time to think and put forward a sensible design and color scheme. Be creative and prompt about your feedback.
3)Every designer has his own unique way of looking into things. They tend to love their thoughts and colors more than anyone else's.
4) Art is driven by passion. Its not the money but your appreciation which counts a ton. Always be prompt about the designs you like and put forth your thoughts. Don't be harsh in your words, because no design can be judged as good / bad. Every piece has its own beauty.
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ReplyDeleteWell a nice thought. Also i believe even a good developer is like an artist. Strict specification may look like a well though process for development, i tend to disagree. Developer's who put lot of thought before writing a single line of code need to treated equally rather better. Because what they are writing is the core of the product. An intrested coder will make a develop better code. Well that's i think, or rather what i realized. Stress is killer no matter what's the output. Except maybe when its a last minute bug fix :P
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