Comments on: I’m an interface developer

By: Buzz

Buzz — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:48:11 +0000

Nice article. Thanks! The part about the clothes is awesome. :-)
And indeed there is a translation need between programmers and designers. Of course being heavily depending on personality and experience as well. And yes, there are those allrounders who just seem have it all. But in general one might experience (like myself) that tech and design talk can be a very painful communication experience.

By: Anders Ytterström

Anders Ytterström — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:37:03 +0000

@Smarmy: I bet each one of them have a designer that is responsible for the design and look’n'feel contraints. These poor bastards also work closest to the client to map the needs and wishes for the product.

I also think they have people responsible for backend, like EPiServer or Polopoly, which don’t have the skills or the time to write HTML good enugh.

I don’t know your experience, but I have worked in projects exactly like Emil describes in his post.

By: Mario Mansour

Mario Mansour — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:18:31 +0000

I wonder if you needed to tell this whole story just to explain what you do or whether you are trying to tell web crawlers that this is a good page with good content, rank it well ! Nice work anyway..

By: Seb

Seb — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:15:01 +0000

Most companies I’ve seen, have the developer in the I.T. department and designer in the marketing department. With the designer issuing instructions to the developer on how the user interface should work.

By: Will Peavy

Will Peavy — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:06:51 +0000

Good article. I like the idea of the title of “Interface Developer” – or better yet “Web Interface Developer.”

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:28:17 +0000

I couldn’t help but disagree Emil. There really is no title for seperation if you can all. That said, designers should know basic HTML and usability and some basic web standards as well as some basic SEO. If they don’t then the SEO team should know some design and usability to know where the designer is going and make some decisions. Same for the programmer, a good programmer is creative. Separating titles based on assumption and not real skills is bad :(

By: Smarmy

Smarmy — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:17:52 +0000

Errr….I could not DISAGREE more. “Real” web developers are web designers and vice versa. They work seamlessly between each craft, writing rules in CSS that turn into beautiful styles, coding lightweight Javascript that translates into pretty transitions, and floating layouts that are pleasing to the eye. How do you think Johansson, Zeldman, Meyer, Budd, and Moll do it? Not like you’ve described.

I’m sorry you’ve had such a pathetic experience in the web industry, but that’s not how MY experience has been at all.

By: Fouad Masoud

Fouad Masoud — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:14:01 +0000

So again what is it that you do?

A Clown! wow i thought u were an interface developer.

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:45:37 +0000

@wooptoo: Yes, irony and humor is a hard path to walk, sometimes people totally misinterpret what you mean… don’t you agree?

By: William O. Yates

William O. Yates — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:29:05 +0000

mirror mirror on the wall…

who takes the most drugs, of us all…?

By: wooptoo

wooptoo — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:01:48 +0000

You’re either on LSD or you’re full of crap. If you like your job, fine, but don’t bash other people. I’m an “interface developer” too, but i don’t say/write crap like that about programmers or artists.
Geez, you’re so narrow minded.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:49:34 +0000

Yes, very nice and politically correct post. :-)

Me myself, I’ve always regarded myself as an Interface Developer, filling in the gap (or at least giving them someone mutual to hate, instead of each other…).

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:37:28 +0000

@Nicole: Yeah, isn’t it? Personally I’m not that fond of abbreviations like WUID, so I think I’ll keep saying just “interface developer”. Thanks for the comment

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:33:39 +0000

That was a very cute article. I’m gonna have to go and re-tag my business cards with ‘wuid’ instead of designer. I’ve always felt ‘designer’ was a bit too artistic for me anyway.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:16:47 +0000

Well said. I appreciate the creation of the “interface developer” and differentiation between it and the other two positions.