Good versus great designers

Last month, Cameron Moll gave a presentation on nine skills that separate good and great designers:

Good designers:

  • Decorate
  • Believe "less" is more
  • Fix problems
  • Are inspired within a genre
  • Macrodesign
  • Treat text as content
  • Use good typefaces
  • Code for one instance
  • Redesign

Great designers:

  • Communicate
  • Believe "less" and "more" co-exist
  • Prevent problems
  • Are inspired by their total environment
  • Microdesign
  • Treat text as UI
  • Use good typography
  • Code for many instances
  • Realign (link)
posted on: October 12, 2006
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