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"with a little practice even a programmer can produce decent designs if they keep things simple and don't try to get fancy"

Yes given time a designer can program an entire software program by keeping things simple and not getting fancy. I'm a designer and have programmed a good deal, however like designs from my programmer, you'd laugh at what I've coded.

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Agreed on all sides. The gap between decent and really good designers is huge and great designers are no more a commodity than great programmers. If the author can find a great designer to work with I'd strongly recommend he does. If not, and he's doing it himself, he needs to keep things simple if he's going to produce passable designs.

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