Because you want to compete with 12,000 people in your town who want to work from home and call themselves web designers?
You’re going to have to come up with something stronger which differentiates what you would bring to web design through the courses - what will set you apart from 12,000 school kids, laid off bank managers and factory workers with Dreamweaver and a GoDaddy account.
Bad design is easy. Good design is NOT easy. It involves visual art, psychological and marketing skills as well as programming.
web design isn’t really any easier then software design. You don’t necessarily need to tell them why your choosing it over software design just say what you like about it. Your correct to definitely not say because its easy, also don’t say because the field pays well.
You’d tell them, maybe, you know in advance you don’t have the background for software design (like heavy duty math skills), and that you’re being mature and realistic enough to know that software design is not your sensible direction for highest achievement.
Or describe visual and graphics interests as opposed to grim and tedious pure full-time grunge logic.
Well, first off, I think your reasoning is flawed. And, if you are going to take something simply because you think it is “easier”, it sounds to me like you are doomed to failure. I will put this in a programming-like equation :
easyWayOut != goodCareerOpportunities
If you really want to know what to tell them, I guess you could say that you are more of an artistic person, and more interested in working with the appearance than the functionality. That is the primary difference between web and software design : graphics vs. logic.
Personally, I think you should save your money, and instead of going to college, buy a golden spatula and 1974 Gremlin -
working at McDonald’s is MUCH easier than web design, and costs less.
Web Design has absolutely nothing in common with Software Design. You will not get a question like “why not study software design”, because there’s no relationship. So don’t worry, tell them you want to be web designer because that’s what you like, simple as that.
To Jeremy T: Web design doesn’t even come remotely close to the Software Engineering (there’s a good reason it’s called Engineering and not Design) in terms of complexity and amount of work to be done.
Because you want to compete with 12,000 people in your town who want to work from home and call themselves web designers?
You’re going to have to come up with something stronger which differentiates what you would bring to web design through the courses - what will set you apart from 12,000 school kids, laid off bank managers and factory workers with Dreamweaver and a GoDaddy account.
Bad design is easy. Good design is NOT easy. It involves visual art, psychological and marketing skills as well as programming.
Comment by CanadaRAM — August 23, 2008 @ 9:05 pm
web design isn’t really any easier then software design. You don’t necessarily need to tell them why your choosing it over software design just say what you like about it. Your correct to definitely not say because its easy, also don’t say because the field pays well.
I assume this is for a college application.
Comment by Jeremy T — August 26, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
Tell them you got run over by a bus.
Comment by BritishRainDrop — August 28, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
You’d tell them, maybe, you know in advance you don’t have the background for software design (like heavy duty math skills), and that you’re being mature and realistic enough to know that software design is not your sensible direction for highest achievement.
Or describe visual and graphics interests as opposed to grim and tedious pure full-time grunge logic.
Comment by fjpoblam — August 31, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
Well, first off, I think your reasoning is flawed. And, if you are going to take something simply because you think it is “easier”, it sounds to me like you are doomed to failure. I will put this in a programming-like equation :
easyWayOut != goodCareerOpportunities
If you really want to know what to tell them, I guess you could say that you are more of an artistic person, and more interested in working with the appearance than the functionality. That is the primary difference between web and software design : graphics vs. logic.
Personally, I think you should save your money, and instead of going to college, buy a golden spatula and 1974 Gremlin -
working at McDonald’s is MUCH easier than web design, and costs less.
Comment by superSymmetric — September 2, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
Web Design has absolutely nothing in common with Software Design. You will not get a question like “why not study software design”, because there’s no relationship. So don’t worry, tell them you want to be web designer because that’s what you like, simple as that.
To Jeremy T: Web design doesn’t even come remotely close to the Software Engineering (there’s a good reason it’s called Engineering and not Design) in terms of complexity and amount of work to be done.
Comment by Ahmed The Ninja — September 3, 2008 @ 8:28 am