Hacker News Reader

Comment by radley | Hacker News Reader

I'm a very experienced designer. This has nothing to do with competition (seriously, if a contest can unravel me then I'm not really a professional).

The rejection of contests has to do with wasting time on wishful thinking without even the minimum form of reward: constructive feedback.

Our advice is based on actual experience. What's yours?

View on HN

This has nothing to do with competition? That's not what I get from this sentence:

    keep in mind that you are *betraying the design community*, 
    and that *might harm you as designer* in the long run.

That actually sounds like a threat to me.

I didn't meant to threaten anyone in my article. It's just a way to draw attention to the seriousness of the matter. As a matter of fact I couldn't care less if there are any people who enter the contest. They are amateurs and and they will stay so until they take their profession more seriously.

You don't care at all if anyone enters the contest, yet felt the need to write this incendiary piece that calls on all designers (which you now deride as "amateur") not to enter this contest? You then further go on to suggest that an entrant's credibility/integrity would be compromised by doing so.

So, which is it?

What I said reflects solely my opinion on the people who enter the contest. As far as I am concerned, anyone who takes UI design seriously wouldn't bother doing so... Again, I am not expecting you to agree.

FWIW, telling noob designers not to enter design contests is equivalent to telling noob programmers to comment their code. It's 101 stuff. I could go into what parts of his post are off-target (like what you point out) but the fundamentals remain the same.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com