>TLDR: It's not your place to tell others what they like. Am I?
It's not about one individual likes, it's about whether your messages reaches a majority of your audience. Most of the filtering is subconscious and immune to fashion btw. >On 28 June 2012 07:59, Peter Laufenberg <open...@laufenberg.ch> wrote: >> It took me _years_ to understand and respect that graphic design >> isn't all that subjective, that it's a craft, with harmonic rules similar >> to music > >Maybe it does, but your comment sounds awfully like many other >designer's wahhhh-wahhhh, emitted when people simply _don't >like_ their creations No it doesn't. However, your "wahhh-wahhh" comment sounds like you think it's all BS anyway. >A good example is the fixed-width websites that someone else >mentioned earlier in the thread. Setting up sites like this takes >away a user's choice for no obvious gain, except perhaps some >laziness on the designer's part. Users might want their content >wider for lots of reasons... such as, perhaps, displaying large >text to aid the vision-impaired. Or they might be viewing it on >a small screen, eg. smartphone... > >Do you think that if the reader finds reading to be optimal at a >particular column width, that said reader may well adjust their >browser window to suit? I never spoke of fixed-width or any technical restrictions; those are set by whoever emits the message, not the designer. -- p
