[IxDA Discuss] A List Apart web design survey results

[Matthew Nish-Lapidus]

I've encountered a disturbingly high number of web professionals, be
they designers or developers, in the agency world who don't know
anything about the industry at large.

A lot of people see this as a job, like all other jobs. .. however, if
they're any good at all, or have any passion for their work, they
quickly learn about resources like ALA.  The ones that don't have a
hard time keeping up and in the end work on low end projects, or have
a hard time finding work at all.

Like a few people have mentioned, I always ask interviewees what
websites they read, and a good answer goes a long way to getting the
job.  Conversely, a bad answer really makes me wonder why this person
wants the job in the first place.

Passionate workers == good work.  And passionate web workers read
websites/blogs about our profession.


On 10/21/07, Todd Zaki Warfel <lists at toddwarfel.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 20, 2007, at 7:28 PM, Joseph Selbie wrote:
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> > I'd guess that in every profession most of the professionals are in
> > fact very insulated by the companies they work for and don't
> > actively follow trends in their profession online or off.
>
> Perhaps this is a difference between innies and outies? Or do those
> of you who work for consulting firms also find the same thing in your
> colleagues?

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