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3. One thing I wish I knew before I’ve started programming/designing
Professional skills.
Grids, working with frameworks, formalized design training, semantic markup, removing the unnecessary, design & art history classes, web standards, networking, macrotypography, everything.
Personal skills.
Good writing, ability to communicate, ability to learn, ability to focus, ability to organize, ability to run things, ability to say “no”, ability to solve problems. Also: know your capabilities, know how to find the right idea and be satisfied with your work.
You’ll become less creative.
The more time you spend at the computer, the worse you’ll become.
You’ll become more technical.
The job will become more technical and less creative from time to time.
Clients never want something fresh.
Often when clients say they want something new and fresh and different, they don’t. The reality of “new and fresh and different” can be very frightening to the average business person.
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