Comments on: 5 'New' Skills that Every Web Designer Needs to Know

By: ambreen11

ambreen11 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 05:37:00 +0000

I agree with your points.I am currently doing some marketing and link building. This will definitely come in handy. Will follow this thread!

By: Suzanne Day

Suzanne Day — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:39:00 +0000

This article is spot on. I studied professional writing as well as web design, am currently studying marketing and mastered the art of becoming #1 in Google a few years ago. Psychology and marketing skills are very very important, followed by seo content writing (and an ability to make it sound interesting). If you don’t have these things, you can kiss being a professional web designer goodbye in the future as everyone wants it and is prepared to pay for it these days ; )

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By: Linards

Linards — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:59:09 +0000

I am at the beginning of my web designer career and I found this video wonderful and very inspirational. Thank you.

By: rpr

rpr — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:01:57 +0000

For a 'generalist'. this is all fairly obvious really, it's part of a natural progression, or at least it should be?

As we mature as Web Designers we realise these skills are fundamental to what we do. Usability, User Experience (UX), Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) all carry aspects of Psychology, Marketing, Context, Strategy, etc ...

Anyone is going to struggle as a Web Designer, if they don't have at least some understanding of these things.

By: John S

John S — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:14:46 +0000

I love your video and have learned quite a lot from it.

However, are you saying that we should stop checking out tutorial sites? I am an amateur web designer myself and I bet most of the people interested in tutorial sites are newbies in the design world. As much as I would like to learn about blogging, social media, marketing, etc., I also would also like to learn more about design. I find tutorial sites very helpful (EXCEPT for round-up sites) in improving my skills since I learn a lot of tips and techniques from them. Of course for people like you who already have a lot of experience, you can ultimately say "I don't need these tutorial sites", but HAVE YOU EVER considered PEOPLE LIKE ME?

I understand what you're trying to say but you could at least acknowledge the efforts of people who write good, quality tutorials online. I'm sure it takes a lot time putting them together and their efforts absolutely CANNOT be discounted. These people have been very helpful to amateur designers like myself.

By: Rich Garner

Rich Garner — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:07:01 +0000

Also, since we are pointing out copy errors :) ... At the end, you thank "Shuttstock.com" for images. It should read "Shutterstock.com".

Otherwise, excellent points.

By: Alexei Perkins

Alexei Perkins — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:33:32 +0000

Fantastic article. Great work. I intend to share this with my web students in class today as a lead in to wider discussion.

By: Jason Klug

Jason Klug — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:33:06 +0000

More and more I find that "knowing web design" is just an assumption at the professional level. What differentiates a designer to potential clients (in my experience, but I'd imagine this is true for employers of in-house designers as well) is their mastery of such tangental skills as reading people (face-to-face presentation), anticipating and accounting for human behavior (on-site), and all manner of communication (written copy, visual, email exchanges, etc.).

These are things the client has a chance of understanding themselves (as opposed to, for example, code that validates), so they're more likely to weight their assessment of the designer based on the criterion they're comfortable with... i.e. the designer's ability to "interface" with real live humans.

By: Hesham @ FamousBloggers

Hesham @ FamousBloggers — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:56:56 +0000

I don't have a question, either a suggestion, I am commenting to tell you how much I admire your presentation, it's incredibly useful to web designers!

I am a web designer myself, and I have went far a way from that to the business/blogging/marketing world, I found myself in your presentation Paul!

Almost all web designers that I know they don't have any idea what is SEO, even blogs and site I am visiting.. all those who are doing the huge lists or lists that you have talked about, they actually repeating themselves and there is no place for creativity!

Thank you a lot for the great advice, I hope this presentation reached the world, I will recommend it in my coming design post.