Cat tech talk [1]

CAT TECH-TALK Mahmoud metwally www.mahmoudmetwally.com

What we will talk about Join CAT. Artist, Designer, or Hack?! Good Designers VS Great Designers. Be Honest With Yourself

WHY CAT !!!!

JOIN CAT!!!! • Join CAT groups  http://groups.google.com/group/catreloaded- juniors  http://groups.google.com/group/catreloaded- team • Visit our site  http://www.catreloaded.net

Artist, Designer, or Hack?! • The artist is the individual who loves to get caught up in their work. • The problem with artists is that they have no concern of the user. • To create beautiful things simply for the sake of beauty is not the path to success.

Artist, Designer, or Hack?! • The designer understands that he is there to do one thing and that is to solve problems. • You might spend 240 hours building a website only to watch users spend the five minutes needed on it and leave. • People tend to think that designers like to create beautiful things (the artist), but they really want to create beautiful solutions. These people are very rare.

Artist, Designer, or Hack?! • There is a difference between knowing something and doing something. I know design, but applying it is another story. • Usually hacks spend more time trying to be artists than designers. • Hacks look at a design and worry more about how a visual effect was done over why it was done.

The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers • Good Designers • Great Designers  Decorate  Communicate  “Less” is more  “Less” and “more” co-exist  Fix problems  Prevent  Inspired by genre  Inspired by total environment  Treat text as content  Treat text as UI  Use good typefaces  Use good typography  Redesign  Realign

The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers • “Less” and “more” co-exist  The difference is some designers like to add a ton of widgets all over the place and justify each and every one to the point that they miss the big picture and end up with a cluttered and confusing interface. Striking that perfect balance will always be one of the designer’s toughest jobs.

The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers • Prevent problems  Great designers have an ability to attain the right solution more times than not, while Good designers continuously scramble to fix the problems that they have created.  Finding the solution that prevents future problems from happening is the ideal choice

The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers • Inspired by total environment  Some designers only take their inspiration from other websites versus those that take inspiration from everything they can get their hands on.  I’ve been inspired by street signs, billboards, album covers, coloring books, fashion and food. Find inspiration in your everyday life.

The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers • Treat text as UI  Copywriting is interface design. Great interfaces are written. ]Jason Friend[  STOP looking at text simply as content to fill a page. Think of the different ways it can be formatted to produce a visually appealing UI that offers a better user experience.

The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers • Use good typography  TYPOGRAPHY is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques.

The Differences Between Good Designers and Great Designers • Realign  The desire to redesign is aesthetic-driven, while the desire to realign is purpose-driven.

Be Honest With Yourself • Which category do you put yourself under? • Some people have a right to say they are trained and have years of experience in the field so you should let them do their job, while others just don’t. • Nice to be a designer, getting paid to do what you love and then having someone say they don’t like what you have produced.

Any Questions or Suggestions!!!

THANKS EVERYBODY

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Cat tech talk [1]

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