Comments on: How Can We Improve the Design Community? http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Duane Kinsey http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-1343 Duane Kinsey Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:33:00 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-1343 Good point, Brad. It's something that I admit to have been guilty of as well. Not everything can, or should be, condensed into only 140 characters.  Best of luck with your new business! Good point, Brad. It’s something that I admit to have been guilty of as well. Not everything can, or should be, condensed into only 140 characters. 

Best of luck with your new business!

]]> By: Brad Towsley http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-1331 Brad Towsley Tue, 17 May 2011 22:50:00 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-1331 Great article! For myself, I believe a large part of the problem is not addressing the root of the problem(s).Today's societies have forgotten how to enjoy reading. I've spent my entire career as a graphic designer cutting copy. I understand the reason is to be concise and to-the-point, however, with regards to your article, 'instant messaging', twitter, an incredible amount of ridiculous abbreviations are everywhere. We now communicate largely with sentence fragments. I'm guilty of it myself. I've recently started my own business. Should I be afraid to type out 3-4 short paragraphs to describe myself, and business goals? I think not. But I'll bet there will be potential clients turned off by the fact that they have to read for longer than 30 seconds so they can get-to-know me. On the up side, I do recognize that with all these social abbreviated communications, there are people out there that want to read, want transparency and want a true connection with the people they live and work with. New technology doesn't have to always speed things up.  You ask, "where do we go from here?". Lets start by rewarding the action of reading and taking time to truly communicate.  Great article! For myself, I believe a large part of the problem is not addressing the root of the problem(s).Today’s societies have forgotten how to enjoy reading. I’ve spent my entire career as a graphic designer cutting copy. I understand the reason is to be concise and to-the-point, however, with regards to your article, ‘instant messaging’, twitter, an incredible amount of ridiculous abbreviations are everywhere. We now communicate largely with sentence fragments. I’m guilty of it myself.

I’ve recently started my own business. Should I be afraid to type out 3-4 short paragraphs to describe myself, and business goals? I think not. But I’ll bet there will be potential clients turned off by the fact that they have to read for longer than 30 seconds so they can get-to-know me.

On the up side, I do recognize that with all these social abbreviated communications, there are people out there that want to read, want transparency and want a true connection with the people they live and work with. New technology doesn’t have to always speed things up. 

You ask, “where do we go from here?”. Lets start by rewarding the action of reading and taking time to truly communicate. 

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-1168 Anonymous Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:16:00 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-1168 Perhaps the feedback loop is broken. If one were to comment that a post was bad, they'd probably be seen as a negative "hater" who's just being critical. The <em>"if you don't like it you don't have to read it"</em> idea. There is probably a lot of validation for mediocre posts. I don't see it changing. Perhaps the feedback loop is broken. If one were to comment that a post was bad, they’d probably be seen as a negative “hater” who’s just being critical. The “if you don’t like it you don’t have to read it” idea. There is probably a lot of validation for mediocre posts.
I don’t see it changing.

]]> By: Selfish Self Promotion | Logobird http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-113 Selfish Self Promotion | Logobird Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:59:31 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-113 [...] a previous post titiled How can we improve the design community, I argued that we all need to think before we share anything via social media. Judging from the [...] [...] a previous post titiled How can we improve the design community, I argued that we all need to think before we share anything via social media. Judging from the [...]

]]> By: Logo Designer Interviews: David Airey + Giveaway | Logobird http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-112 Logo Designer Interviews: David Airey + Giveaway | Logobird Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:40:15 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-112 [...] has been a lot of discussion lately about the current state of the design community. What are your thoughts on this? What would you like to see be done different out [...] [...] has been a lot of discussion lately about the current state of the design community. What are your thoughts on this? What would you like to see be done different out [...]

]]> By: Gonzo the Great http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-111 Gonzo the Great Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:06:15 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-111 Hi Duane, great article, enjoyed reading this. Especially because I'm hearing more and more of these sounds on the internet! Heck, I myself think sometimes there's too much crap on weblogs. I'm repeating myself now, but <em>how much more social-icon-posts do we need?</em> It looks like there are more blogs than designers, haha! Maybe we should set a limit: 1 blog/designer, .. or if your blog exists longer then 1 year, you're save .. otherwise quit, ... or ...? It looks like a lot of blogs produce 'crap' so that they can have a solid pageview? The better the pageview, traffic, etc., the more advertisement! Inspired by the 'big blogs', everybody wants to get rich. But the 'richer' the advertisement-blogs get, .. the 'poorer' the content! Once again, thanks for posting this brilliant article. Cheers & Ciao ... BTW: I'm responsible for the 101th tweet, so you can email your friend that he can retweet your article ;-P Hi Duane,

great article, enjoyed reading this. Especially because I’m hearing more and more of these sounds on the internet! Heck, I myself think sometimes there’s too much crap on weblogs. I’m repeating myself now, but how much more social-icon-posts do we need?

It looks like there are more blogs than designers, haha! Maybe we should set a limit: 1 blog/designer, .. or if your blog exists longer then 1 year, you’re save .. otherwise quit, … or …?

It looks like a lot of blogs produce ‘crap’ so that they can have a solid pageview? The better the pageview, traffic, etc., the more advertisement!

Inspired by the ‘big blogs’, everybody wants to get rich. But the ‘richer’ the advertisement-blogs get, .. the ‘poorer’ the content!

Once again, thanks for posting this brilliant article. Cheers & Ciao …

BTW: I’m responsible for the 101th tweet, so you can email your friend that he can retweet your article ;-P

]]> By: Gonzo the Great http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-142 Gonzo the Great Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:06:00 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-142 Hi Duane, great article, enjoyed reading this. Especially because I'm hearing more and more of these sounds on the internet! Heck, I myself think sometimes there's too much crap on weblogs. I'm repeating myself now, but <em>how much more social-icon-posts do we need?</em> It looks like there are more blogs than designers, haha! Maybe we should set a limit: 1 blog/designer, .. or if your blog exists longer then 1 year, you're save .. otherwise quit, ... or ...? It looks like a lot of blogs produce 'crap' so that they can have a solid pageview? The better the pageview, traffic, etc., the more advertisement! Inspired by the 'big blogs', everybody wants to get rich. But the 'richer' the advertisement-blogs get, .. the 'poorer' the content! Once again, thanks for posting this brilliant article. Cheers & Ciao ... BTW: I'm responsible for the 101th tweet, so you can email your friend that he can retweet your article ;-P Hi Duane,

great article, enjoyed reading this. Especially because I’m hearing more and more of these sounds on the internet! Heck, I myself think sometimes there’s too much crap on weblogs. I’m repeating myself now, but how much more social-icon-posts do we need?

It looks like there are more blogs than designers, haha! Maybe we should set a limit: 1 blog/designer, .. or if your blog exists longer then 1 year, you’re save .. otherwise quit, … or …?

It looks like a lot of blogs produce ‘crap’ so that they can have a solid pageview? The better the pageview, traffic, etc., the more advertisement!

Inspired by the ‘big blogs’, everybody wants to get rich. But the ‘richer’ the advertisement-blogs get, .. the ‘poorer’ the content!

Once again, thanks for posting this brilliant article. Cheers & Ciao …

BTW: I’m responsible for the 101th tweet, so you can email your friend that he can retweet your article ;-P

]]> By: Ben http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-110 Ben Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:11:53 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-110 The "design community", like so many others, is based entirely around reputation rather than talent. "bloggers" get too popular, and start to forget that what there saying is simply there opinion, and not fact. Many readers lap up the opinion as fact, as they believe that such a "high profile" name cant be wrong. Its not just the design community however, it happens in most place. Its not what you know.. The “design community”, like so many others, is based entirely around reputation rather than talent.

“bloggers” get too popular, and start to forget that what there saying is simply there opinion, and not fact. Many readers lap up the opinion as fact, as they believe that such a “high profile” name cant be wrong.

Its not just the design community however, it happens in most place. Its not what you know..

]]> By: Ben http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-141 Ben Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:11:00 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-141 The "design community", like so many others, is based entirely around reputation rather than talent. "bloggers" get too popular, and start to forget that what there saying is simply there opinion, and not fact. Many readers lap up the opinion as fact, as they believe that such a "high profile" name cant be wrong. Its not just the design community however, it happens in most place. Its not what you know.. The “design community”, like so many others, is based entirely around reputation rather than talent.

“bloggers” get too popular, and start to forget that what there saying is simply there opinion, and not fact. Many readers lap up the opinion as fact, as they believe that such a “high profile” name cant be wrong.

Its not just the design community however, it happens in most place. Its not what you know..

]]> By: Alphabetix http://www.logobird.com/how-can-we-improve-the-design-community/#comment-109 Alphabetix Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:59:35 +0000 http://www.logobird.com.au/blog/?p=439#comment-109 Of course there is going to redundancy in topics that are blogged. And I don't think it's the worse thing in the world for several sites to offer perspectives on the same topic on their respective blogs (or to tweet about them, etc.). I say this, of course, within reason, because everytime I see someone steal verbatim another person's posts it makes me ill. One thing to consider is the audience that you're trying to share your knowledge with. If you are X designer and most of the people who follow your blog are not part of the design community, but rather customers, etc. then I think it's OK to blog about something that is not novel to the design world, but that might be of interest to your followers. If you're aiming to get other designers to follow you, you better get something fresh out there. In response to what Douglas Bonneville said: One article – I think it was David Airey’s blog some time ago – was about the idea of literally running out of new, good ideas The new value is on the perspective on topics that have been covered. (And no, I don't care about 10 great black Wordpress themes either). Shady SEO practices only perpetuate the problem. I think in a community of designers, having fresh ideas should be the rule, not the exception. .-= Alphabetix´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.alphabetix.net/blog/social-networking/social-media-success-summit-2010/" rel="nofollow">Social Media Success Summit 2010</a> =-. Of course there is going to redundancy in topics that are blogged. And I don’t think it’s the worse thing in the world for several sites to offer perspectives on the same topic on their respective blogs (or to tweet about them, etc.). I say this, of course, within reason, because everytime I see someone steal verbatim another person’s posts it makes me ill.

One thing to consider is the audience that you’re trying to share your knowledge with. If you are X designer and most of the people who follow your blog are not part of the design community, but rather customers, etc. then I think it’s OK to blog about something that is not novel to the design world, but that might be of interest to your followers. If you’re aiming to get other designers to follow you, you better get something fresh out there.

In response to what Douglas Bonneville said:

One article – I think it was David Airey’s blog some time ago – was about the idea of literally running out of new, good ideas

The new value is on the perspective on topics that have been covered. (And no, I don’t care about 10 great black WordPress themes either).

Shady SEO practices only perpetuate the problem. I think in a community of designers, having fresh ideas should be the rule, not the exception.
.-= Alphabetix´s last blog ..Social Media Success Summit 2010 =-.

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