Pixelvetica

Some designers seem to feel it’s okay to alter what they say to a client just to save themselves. “Sorry, I didn’t meet the deadline for the third logo option yet because Photoshop got corrupted.” You know what? Use Gimp or Pixen then. As a designer, you haven’t got any excuses.

Developers also take advantage of the rest of our general lack of knowledge of the back-end to avoid coding things: “The server just won’t run it! I don’t know why.” Well you know what? In these days of standardization, most servers do it right. If you don’t know how to write the code, ask or tell the client that.

The reason I bother to write about this is because I’ve recently experienced situations where two separate designers lied to our whole community. For one of them, it wasn’t even related to a deadline/ability, it was purely about ethics. And it worries me: designers and developers of our internetwork are supposed to hold ourselves to high standards, design wise, emotionally, and in terms of maturity.

If you aren’t a designer or developer, this kind of thing still applies to you. Let’s say you’re a student in school… If you didn’t do your assignment, tell your teacher that. “My printer didn’t work” isn’t a valid excuse anymore; we’ve got email, remember?

I know, I know, nobody wants a lecture in truth and ethics anymore these days. We all heard this same rant when we were kids.

But that’s just the thing. We were kids. And then when we grow up, we acknowledge for ourselves that the stuff our parents told us back then are for kids, and nothing more. And even though we know that truth is the right way to go, “some of us” subconsciously dismiss it.

Tweet me your story if you want. And if you’ve really, never told a lie and don’t need to be reminded of this, then I guess you’re free of rendering errors.

EDIT: On an unrelated note, a friend and I are having some issues with a PHP problem. If you’re a dev and have got a Forrst account, please help us out: http://cl.ly/183F  Fixed; thanks for your help.

EDIT 2: Shout out to Forrst/Kyle Bragger. You are “awsm” … and leafy. ;)