From e417a818e207a6cca6e2f3c471611673ab836a62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bradley Taunt Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 16:14:03 -0400 Subject: Initial commit for Jekyll testing and conversion, updated --- _posts/2017-07-10-dts.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2017-07-10-dts.md (limited to '_posts/2017-07-10-dts.md') diff --git a/_posts/2017-07-10-dts.md b/_posts/2017-07-10-dts.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f44ce19 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2017-07-10-dts.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Designers Need Thicker Skin" +date: 2017-07-10 +--- + + +I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about "drama" within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in design-land. + +### Critique the critics + +Designer/design critic Eli Schiff tweeted his thoughts about the newly released promo video from Framer showcasing their new gradient feature. See the initial tweet below: + +
+ Eli's Tweet +
Eli Schiff just telling it how it is.
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+ +Let me begin by saying my views on this comment: I don't care. I honestly don’t feel strongly one way or the other about them making a video promo for gradients. Could it have just been a simple text tweet? Sure. Does it really matter that they decided to make a video for it? Not at all. + +But this isn’t the problem. + +Other designers took to Twitter and started attacking Eli, not even as a design critic but as a person. This was ugly to see. What happened to civil discussion and giving the other side a chance to say their piece? Calling to "ban him" from sites such as DesignerNews or suggesting to unfollow him on Twitter is unbelievably childish - in an industry that we tote as "accepting of everyone" no less. + +That's all I'm going to say because I don’t want to spend too much time on this foolishness, but honestly designers - get some thicker skin. + +Yeesh. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf