Comments on: Why is the design community still arguing about spec? http://damian-design.com/2010/05/design-community-spec/ Thu, 27 May 2010 17:31:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Cindy http://damian-design.com/2010/05/design-community-spec/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Cindy Thu, 27 May 2010 17:31:34 +0000 http://seebrowndesign.com/?p=960#comment-100 Hi, Saul, thanks for the comment! The reason I think it's over at this point is because the only people still keeping up the fight ARE creatives. The clients I've worked with either don't care or wouldn't use a crowdsourcing service if they knew about it anyway. Those clients that use crowdsourcing wouldn't use anything more expensive anyway. I just keep thinking there must be a solution for creatives beyond shouting from the roof-tops about the negatives of spec (which I also acknowledge). I just don't realistically see large-scale spec stopping unless the internet shuts down at this point. What sort of viable solution is there that goes beyond saying "spec is bad"? :) Hi, Saul, thanks for the comment! The reason I think it’s over at this point is because the only people still keeping up the fight ARE creatives. The clients I’ve worked with either don’t care or wouldn’t use a crowdsourcing service if they knew about it anyway. Those clients that use crowdsourcing wouldn’t use anything more expensive anyway.

I just keep thinking there must be a solution for creatives beyond shouting from the roof-tops about the negatives of spec (which I also acknowledge). I just don’t realistically see large-scale spec stopping unless the internet shuts down at this point. What sort of viable solution is there that goes beyond saying “spec is bad”? :)

]]> By: Saul Colt http://damian-design.com/2010/05/design-community-spec/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Saul Colt Thu, 27 May 2010 15:30:02 +0000 http://seebrowndesign.com/?p=960#comment-99 I don't agree that Spec Work is here to stay. I think rather we are in an interesting time where it hasn't been adopted fully because there are still a lot of people willing to fight to keep it from being the standard, myself being one of them. As for Jeremiah's Comment, I like him lots and respect him more, but he isn't a designer and as far as I know has never been so his opinion is nothing more then an educated outsider. If anyone is going to declare the war over I would rather it be from the folks who are feeding themselves from their art. Lets ask them if this is something we should be giving up on etc. -saul I don’t agree that Spec Work is here to stay. I think rather we are in an interesting time where it hasn’t been adopted fully because there are still a lot of people willing to fight to keep it from being the standard, myself being one of them.

As for Jeremiah’s Comment, I like him lots and respect him more, but he isn’t a designer and as far as I know has never been so his opinion is nothing more then an educated outsider. If anyone is going to declare the war over I would rather it be from the folks who are feeding themselves from their art. Lets ask them if this is something we should be giving up on etc.

-saul

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