How to be a Designer in a Developer World

Inspired by the difficulties myself and others have faced being a designer and having to work in the developer (or left) side of our field. For all those designers that, despite their best efforts, will always be right brained people.

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The amount of sheer panic when a client starts editing part of a website they don't know how to edit. I should not have to deal with that amount of stress first thing in the morning.

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These random symbols now have meaning. And you wish you could use this to leave conversations.

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When this conversation happens

Developer to Designer: We understand this language so we won't be explicit about what we're talking about to you.

Developer to Developer: Be explicit. I need to know exactly what you mean.