Once you get used to working in one or the other, you’ll surely find certain things frustrating in the other. Why can’t I set a background color, padding, and rounded corners on character styles in InDesign. Grrrrr! Why is it so hard to make a full size background image on the web. Grrrrr!<\/p>\n
Line, shape, color, balance, texture, contrast, flow, affordances, the gestalt… What ultimately makes a good web designer is the same thing that ultimately makes a good print designer: fundamentals. You just need to know what looks good and what looks bad and have the time and patience to get to good. Knowing your tools helps, and definitely makes you faster, but are just a tiny fraction of what makes a good designer. <\/p>\n
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I meet print designers all the time that talk about how they want to get into web. Awesome. Both are cool but the web is definitely the medium of the future. If they are already a great print designer, I already know they’ll do well in web. If they are a print designer because it was an easy major in college and are just trying to learn web because they are nervous about losing their job, I worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I used to work in Pre-Press for a long time. Longer even now than I’ve been working on the web. I was in and out of InDesign documents all day every day. I’m not an uber-pro, but I know my way around pretty well. 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