I used to do a lot more design 4-5 years ago, now I'm almost exclusively coding or preparing project proposals/estimates/etc.
I have to say the women working here create much more aesthetically pleasing designs than the men. But I find most of them have experience with designing for print more so than web. This is sometimes frustrating when we get a design meant for print and are told to make it look the same on the web. But of course nothing is impossible, I just have trouble justifying spending a whole load of time just to make the design work the way they want when other options are often more efficient. That being said, women also make great programmers (but rarely program and design well at both). We have several that are key members of our programming team, dreadful designers though. Please excuse my chauvinistic comment in my last correspondence. I never claimed to have a tasteful sense of humour. :) Cheers, Ben -----Original Message----- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Women programmers > Amen goes there, sister! > Susan H. Allen > Pfinsten Publishing, L.L.C. > Cleveland, Ohio >>I actually find it really annoying when I >>walk in new to a team and get the assumption that I'm there to make the >>application "look pretty" or design/develop the GUI. Besides, that's my job! :) Actually I've been told that I'm better at it than most "heavy-lifting" developers... I probably spend equal amounts of time on look and feel as I do on database development and issues, etc... but I would never assume that a woman coming into a dev team I worked on had been hired to "make it pretty" ... unless of course, she had the _title_ "designer" or "graphic artist"... Isaac Dealey Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer www.turnkey.to 954-776-0046 ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
