This content originally appeared on Ugly Duck and was authored by Bradley Taunt
I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in design-land.
Critique the critics
Designer/design critic Eli Schiff tweeted his thoughts about the newly released promo video from Framer showcasing their new gradient feature. See the initial tweet below:
Eli Schiff just telling it how it is.
Let me begin by saying my views on this comment: I don’t care. I honestly don’t feel strongly one way or the other about them making a video promo for gradients. Could it have just been a simple text tweet? Sure. Does it really matter that they decided to make a video for it? Not at all.
But this isn’t the problem.
Other designers took to Twitter and started attacking Eli, not even as a design critic but as a person. This was ugly to see. What happened to civil discussion and giving the other side a chance to say their piece? Calling to “ban him” from sites such as DesignerNews or suggesting to unfollow him on Twitter is unbelievably childish - in an industry that we tote as “accepting of everyone” no less.
That’s all I’m going to say because I don’t want to spend too much time on this foolishness, but honestly designers - get some thicker skin.
Yeesh.
This content originally appeared on Ugly Duck and was authored by Bradley Taunt
Bradley Taunt | Sciencx (2017-07-10T00:00:00+00:00) Designers need thicker skin. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2017/07/10/designers-need-thicker-skin/
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