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Can Web Designers Overshare?
No, I am not talking about design comps, although I would say that the answer to that question is a resounding “Yes!” In this instance, I am talking about (over) educating our coworkers/clients in our fields of expertise.
As I started coming in to my own and understanding my own strengths and weaknesses, I realized that my organization had absolutely no appreciation for these skills. We made things, they worked, they were “pretty” (sometimes), and so we moved on satisfied with a job well done.
Yet no one was considering some hard truths. Putting a 40 page Word document online as-is or giving users every conceivable option in an application might not be the best idea. We were applying no information architecture, no content strategy, no usability testing. We were editing these things grammatically, but we were not editing them from a design perspective.