@WELZ That looks pretty much like an answer. Unless it isn’t one of those answers which add absolutely nothing to an existing answer, I see no reason for flagging it. It certainly isn’t a valid comment, as your comment suggests.
@joojaa I don't think they don't want to, I just think that they find technical matters difficult and hence shy away from them
Lots of designers see themselves as creative and see the occupation as a creative one. The appearance of numbers and math in that (heh) equation is something they really don't like
At least, that's my experience with lots of students I taught basic Graphic Design. A lot of them just want to 'express themselves creatively' and glaze over or grow bored when I start talking about colour models or coördinates
[amused] I have a Fine Arts degree with just a specialty in graphic design. Ratios, anatomy, color wheels and light interactions, pigment properties...
Part of breaking through into grabbing control of creative expression always involves gaining a moderately scientific understanding of the materials you work with.
Graphic design work tends to need more scientific understanding than many other artistic fields, just because the work gets displayed in so many different ways. Or do people LIKE having their "I [heart] THING" bumper stickers turn into "I [blank] THING" stickers after a few months?
(Red dyes are the most expensive and toxic to make colorfast.)
It's been my experience that graphic designers, at least locally, are more interested in the technical end, and less interested in the communication/user-interface end.
A lot of my jobs come because I have a reputation for focusing on considering the context of the target demographic and how to draw a connection between them and the client, rather than focusing on how to demonstrate my own skills as a designer.
@Vincent I can vouch for that, there is resistance and you can see it when we give courses what inolved coding or just the need to be a bit more structured/analytical like in page layouts
I think most of the good designers grow out of it after a few years
@WELZ For the “higher” queues, yes. The question is whether this block was implemented generally or queue-wise. Then it might have fallen through the cracks for the first-posts queue, since it is rarely ever relevant for it.
@Wrzlprmft True, though only one user can review it, so when she posts, we need nobody (which is anybody over 500 rep) to go the queue and then she has to wait ~5 minutes (it can take that long) to check.
@Zoe It’s actually the relevant case here. I hadn’t thought of private betas, because everywhere else, having access to the review queue when your own post is still inside is quite exceptional.