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catshirt on June 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Open source needs designers

why is a designer different than a developer in any of these aspects?

drivingmenuts on June 27, 2011 [–]

Depends of if the designer has the same itch as the developer.

The software (at least in my perspective as both) is completely different and so the two problem spaces are rarely going to collide in exactly the right way.

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