It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
As far as your career prospects: if you like having a playbook to follow, you might do better at larger companies. They'll have separate design and UX departments who give you a style guide or pattern library and wireframes to implement; your role is to help them work out what is and isn't feasible, and then to make the final designs real as efficiently as possible. You could stop there, or use the opportunity afforded by working with pros to develop your own design sensibilities.
Or you could keep trying to learn interface design on your own -- it's a skill, it can be learned! It just takes time, effort, and the willingness to keep iterating on less-than-stellar prototypes.
Either way, very few people are going to be good at design without first putting in a lot of time at getting good. Figure out how you're likely to learn more faster and give it a shot.
Yeah, I'll keep trying to improve my design chops. I'm building my personal website and hoping to finish this Q3. And yes, that's the plan, I hope to be good enough to someday work in a team with good designers! *fingers crossed
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As far as your career prospects: if you like having a playbook to follow, you might do better at larger companies. They'll have separate design and UX departments who give you a style guide or pattern library and wireframes to implement; your role is to help them work out what is and isn't feasible, and then to make the final designs real as efficiently as possible. You could stop there, or use the opportunity afforded by working with pros to develop your own design sensibilities.
Or you could keep trying to learn interface design on your own -- it's a skill, it can be learned! It just takes time, effort, and the willingness to keep iterating on less-than-stellar prototypes.
Either way, very few people are going to be good at design without first putting in a lot of time at getting good. Figure out how you're likely to learn more faster and give it a shot.
Thank you for the insight and the advice!
Yeah, I'll keep trying to improve my design chops. I'm building my personal website and hoping to finish this Q3. And yes, that's the plan, I hope to be good enough to someday work in a team with good designers! *fingers crossed