The Most Important Web Designer Qualities
Saturday March 13, 2010
I have been thinking lately. While I have had the privilege to be involved in a web design program at a local college I start to question what the most important aspects of web design are. I decided to ask my network. Here is what I ask of you. Ask yourself “If I was to hire a web designer out of college, what would they have to know, and what would be a plus?”, and leave it in the comments. Thank you for taking the time to contribute!
Here are my recommendations:
Must haves:
- Semantics
- Typography
- Separation of Content, Presentation, and Behavior
- Web Standards
- Accessibility
- Usability
- Browser Inconsistencies
- Proper use of Space
- Some Programming Logic
- Object Oriented Programming Principles
- FTP
- Relational Database Systems
Nice to haves:
- Database Design
- Understand programming design patterns - MVC particularly
- Mobile
- Version control
- Web application frameworks - Ruby on Rails, Zend, CodeIgniter
- SSH