Originally Posted by
JokeHusky
please define "graphic design", will that include programming/coding?
No. Generally speaking graphic design is a step before programming/coding. At my job, the workflow involves myself and our graphic designer collaborating on wireframes, which form the functional portion of the ui. Once we've both agreed on wireframes, I'll start building the functional components, and he'll start creating a style guide. From there, I'll take the style guide and make sure the functional components look exactly like the reference material. There's some collaboration and tweaking possible in the last stage, but the overall appearance of the site is in the designer's hands. The developers job is to make it function and translate the design into html/css/js/etc components from a static or semi-static reference.
Also, just for reference, if you expect programmers to give you a stylish design:
You're gonna have a bad time.
Last edited by Eleeleth; Oct 2, 2015 at 08:15 PM.