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How Do People Not Realize Devs are Creative?! Allow Me to Demonstrate.

michelledev on February 19, 2021

True or False. Developers are highly creative and intuitive. I feel like most of the world (outside of IT or software people) would answer false. ...
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Eduardo Cookie Lifter

Even graphic design or Design as a whole, share their own methods to follow, why? Because Design is not "art", so it's not enough to be creative for a designer, you have to also know a path from A to Z, Bauhaus was the first place to introduce this thought-behaviour into their students. Many people think of design as art when they're completely the opposite. I think being creative is using what I have at reach for my advantage to solve a problem or to come up with a solution in a time frame.

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Krishan111

The place where people express their views and do etc stuff are made by Devs, than how could devs be less creative 🌟

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Giorgos Kontopoulos πŸ‘€

The subject is good but I believe it does not really provide any concrete example of creativity. The areas you are touching are good examples of creativity but it does not convince me that a dev is creative. Conclusions as to why a dev is creative in each section are not explained nor are easily deducted.

Article needs proof-reading which also takes away of the reading flow.

Here is a few suggestion

what is the difference between these two phrases ?
"let me know what you think and you can tell me what you think."

perhaps your missing a NOT here ?
"development and programming are a straight path from A to Z"

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michelledev • Edited

Thanks Giorgos and thanks for the tips, I made some revisions ;)

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Conner Ow

A lot of this is true and I can relate to the things that go on in my mind. I am a fifteen-year-old fullstack developer without a job and really, what happens when I want to make something is I will think in my mind, "I want to make a certain project." If I don't know how to make it, I'll start and then do some research and then eventually, it comes out. If I want to make something and I know how to make it, I'll just do it.

I do use both sides of my brain to create a project. First I make part of the frontend and then from the backend I finish that page and then move on.

That is just how my brain works and I'm sure that's the way a lot of people think as well.

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William Cairns

I think of myself as creative, but not artistic

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michelledev

Thanks Daniel!

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DevLorenzo

Nice one!