Web Design/Development Research Questions.

@Sam_AdamsMay 08.2009

I am doing a research paper on web design for a school project. Please answer these questions and post your responces! Thanks.

10 Interview Questions

1. When did you first get involved in the design and development in web sites?

2. What schooling do you feel was required in your line of work to be successful?

3. If you were not a web designer professionally, what do you think you would have done?

4. What is your favorite part of designing and developing web sites?

5. How many web clients are you currently working with?

6. Where do you think web design is going in the next 10 years?

7. What is the hardest thing about designing and developing web site professionally?

8. Is there anything that you look to for inspiration while designing a new website?

9. Do you work with a web design team, or are you more of a solo designer, coder, and developer?

~~10.~~ If there was one thing you could change about the web design process, what would it be?

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@toicontienMay 13.2009 — #[B]1. When did you first get involved in the design and development in web sites?[/B]

I randomly took a "web design class" in college, which involved some very basic and incorrect HTML. I started doing it in my free time, and then got involved with some basic web work at an ISP where I was a phone support tech. It was right around beginning of 2000.

[B]2. What schooling do you feel was required in your line of work to be successful?[/B]

I really had no idea. Depends on what you want to do. If programming is your thing, then go with a computer science degree. I got an IT degree and wish I had a CS degree. For graphics, go with a graphic/visual design and multimedia degree.

[B]3. If you were not a web designer professionally, what do you think you would have done?[/B]

Collect welfare, and have babies to collect more welfare. And I would do web work on the side, so it's a darn good thing I went with web development.

Actually, I would have been a journalist, as that's what I was doing before going into web development.

[B]4. What is your favorite part of designing and developing web sites?[/B]

Creating something that takes on a life of its own. Web development is multidisciplinary: It draws on so many different fields of study and always presents a new problem to solve, be it in programming code, user experience or even social issues which crop up in social-oriented web sites and applications.

[B]5. How many web clients are you currently working with?[/B]

I'm not personally working with any, however the company I work for deals with dozens of clients, plus thousands of social network web site users (Motortopia, Husker Locker).

[B]6. Where do you think web design is going in the next 10 years?[/B]

This open ended question can only be answered with another open ended question: Where are you right now, and what do you need to do while you are there? That is where web design is headed. Design itself is headed wherever the web is headed, and the web is headed wherever human beings are headed... physically. The web is going mobile and super local. Everything from searching, services and content.

The news industry is about to go through a sea-change, and for business models to work, I believe national and global web portals will start losing out to local media for news, business directories, dining, events, and more.

[B]7. What is the hardest thing about designing and developing web site professionally?[/B]

Testing in Internet Explorer. If you aren't scared now, you will be. Oh yes, you [I]will[/I] be...

[B]8. Is there anything that you look to for inspiration while designing a new website?[/B]

It's always good to see what your web site's competitors are doing right and what they are doing wrong. Look at existing graphics design for your client to get an idea, then find out what audience their web site will have. The people viewing the web site will determine the content and design. If that's not true, then you've designed the site wrong.

[B]9. Do you work with a web design team, or are you more of a solo designer, coder, and developer?[/B]

A little of both, but primarily as part of a team. I have done some side work for family and close friends, but mostly I work with a small team: 1 server side programmer, 1 front end developer (me), 1 designer and 1 manager.

[B]10. If there was one thing you could change about the web design process, what would it be?[/B]

Testing in Internet Explorer. I wouldn't test that browser at all. What a frustrating pile of junk that has gotten better in recent years. GM has gotten better in recent years too, but that won't stop them from going into bankruptcy. ?

@ShortsMay 14.2009 — #[b]1. When did you first get involved in the design and development in web sites?[/b]

October 1997. Was a Final Fantasty 1-6 website, in HTML 2.0 with CSS for styling Anchors... Very ugly but got the job done.

[b]2. What schooling do you feel was required in your line of work to be successful?[/b]

None. If I were to school for what I do, computer science, in particular any classes dealing with LogicAlgorithmsMath.

[b]3. If you were not a web designer professionally, what do you think you would have done?[/b]

Artist, in particular comic strips. Possibly a writer, or IT.

[b]4. What is your favorite part of designing and developing web sites?[/b]

The possibilities. Pretty much anything that can be done involving a computer can be performed online.

[b]5. How many web clients are you currently working with?[/b]

Work salary now for just one website, [URL=http://www.talenttrove.com/]TalentTrove[/URL]

[b]6. Where do you think web design is going in the next 10 years?[/b]

More the same, possibly more modular.

[b]7. What is the hardest thing about designing and developing web site professionally?[/b]

Clients that demand complete Flash sites, then co-workers who don't understand how to use Objects. ? Otherwise not much.

[b]8. Is there anything that you look to for inspiration while designing a new website?[/b]

Simplicity. Love simple designs that are quick and efficient.

[b]9. Do you work with a web design team, or are you more of a solo designer, coder, and developer?[/b]

Yes, had worked freelance professional for several years but now lead developer for the site mentioned above.

[b]10. If there was one thing you could change about the web design process, what would it be?[/b]

Getting rid of sites that are completely done in Flash. Also more comformity with datetimetimestamp and better cross-platform built in Ajax or equiv.