Comments on: Smashing Magazine: Women in Web Design

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:59:26 +0000

I enjoyed reading comments of this post. Bistro has a point with him.

But being a designer myself, this is one reason why I particularly avoid using pink color in any of my designs. Because at the end people say ‘It’s a girlish design’ and my team turn up to me and giggle. I do not want that happening

Thanks,
Rachel

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:28:32 +0000

Agree with Vlad although there are some intrinsic qualities that each gender can bring to the table depending on what the website is about, mainly due to a possible interest in the content matter. E.g. a florists website compared to a mechanics website. If well briefed the output should be good… but the additional edge can be gained by someone with a personal interest in the content matter of the website.

By: Christi

Christi — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:51:55 +0000

Lisa, I just came across your blog and love it. Working in our web design team, I am the only girl and basically the only girl in the whole IT department. Can’t blame them, we hardly ever get resumes from females.

Thanks for the blog post.

By: Joe Brown

Joe Brown — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:56:27 +0000

I know quite a lot lady designers but among them too few are web designers. But regarding this blog design, I can undoubtedly say that this is soooooooo sweet.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:49:46 +0000

Some great designers in the list. Congrats Lisa!

By: Erica

Erica — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:52:12 +0000

It takes a woman’s touch I feel the same way about photographies.

By: bistro

bistro — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:28:06 +0000

Thankyou for your concern Lisa you are very kind Cyberquill you make a great point about lesbians, I’m certainly not against hiring them.

At the end of the day, when hiring, it’s your money, and if you’re not 100% confident they are going to do the job to your satisfaction, then you reserve the right to hire someone else. Hire who you want. If you don’t want to hire a woman for whatever reason, don’t. If you don’t want to hire a man, don’t. It all depends on your goals. All male basketball teams don’t hire women to play for them, that would just be ridiculous. I don’t see why it should be any different for web design, or any other, erm, male dominated arena.

That said, I prefer to hire female writers. Make of that what you will. It’s just preference. I’m not prejudiced I love women !

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:04:36 +0000

This is one of the most beautiful blogs I have ever seen, has this blog been featured on smashing magazine, i think it should definitely

By: Cyberquill

Cyberquill — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:47:06 +0000

Bistro’s analysis is too general, as it applies to heterosexual women only. And he certainly should have added gay men to the list of people he wouldn’t hire for the very same reason.

Lesbians generally do not shy away from using strong colors. It’s a fact. (If I search long enough, I’m sure I’ll find some evidence to back me up on this.)

Check out the Windows Live Mail color scheme, for instance. All pastel shades. You can use the custom color feature all you want, no matter what color you pick, the program turns it into its pastel version. Drives me crazy. No idea whether the person who designed this thing was male or female, but it certainly wasn’t someone who has ever watched the Super Bowl with a beer in his or her hand.

Bottom line, the issue doesn’t simply reduce to male versus female. It’s a little more nuanced than that.

Amen.

By: milo

milo — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:00:45 +0000

Comments like this enforce me to change my website all over to pinkyness…;P