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I spoke on this before many moons ago about a standard for designin skins for applications. I was wondering if anybody had any thoughts on that.
Standards are a way of helping those who want to learn how to skin and a way that is readable (the code, nameing conventions, readme files description, user usage, and so on) and so users can unterstand your design interfaces.
The other reason why I was thinking about a standard was so that those who wanted to do skinning professionally could easly grow from the guidelines of how to put together a total skin design, code, and user documentation. It also would be a way to show the company hiring you that you knmow what your doing and deserve a certain amount of pay.
Also by having a standard those copanies, firms and businesses who want to use a skinners services can guesstimate cost for design. If they want to go with the smuck to skin what ever it will most likely not be good. Also if that smuck knows about the standards she might not price herself so low because she knows what the going rate is.
I am not trying to commercaillize this but as artist we could get paid for ding such work. As artist we usually get abused when it comes to getting hired because ther is no standard or it is "art". I hope that by creating a standard there can be a consences on how we should be treated and how we respect each other. No underbidding of work when we all agree it is worth this much. Helping others to get into the world of skinning and design.
It seems to me that skinning will be very mainstream soon. GUI design has not gotten enough attention as it should and now maybe it will. May companies want a look, IT specailist want to control the users computer at the job, interface design helps worker production, the list continues and is long. Intergration between skinning and IT will get very tight. Web designers and advertising designers will want a GUI that supports and looks like what they want. It would be better to get a community thinking about looking out for ourselves before we cut our nose off to despite our face. There are many associations that got on the balll late and have almost no power or aren't coheisive enough to be useful.
So what do you think????
Graphic User Interface League of Designers.
GUILD (Yes Jafo, it is G.U.I.L.D and oppossed to GUIDING HANDS. I would have used that but I forgot the acranim meaning
)
Standards are a way of helping those who want to learn how to skin and a way that is readable (the code, nameing conventions, readme files description, user usage, and so on) and so users can unterstand your design interfaces.
The other reason why I was thinking about a standard was so that those who wanted to do skinning professionally could easly grow from the guidelines of how to put together a total skin design, code, and user documentation. It also would be a way to show the company hiring you that you knmow what your doing and deserve a certain amount of pay.
Also by having a standard those copanies, firms and businesses who want to use a skinners services can guesstimate cost for design. If they want to go with the smuck to skin what ever it will most likely not be good. Also if that smuck knows about the standards she might not price herself so low because she knows what the going rate is.
I am not trying to commercaillize this but as artist we could get paid for ding such work. As artist we usually get abused when it comes to getting hired because ther is no standard or it is "art". I hope that by creating a standard there can be a consences on how we should be treated and how we respect each other. No underbidding of work when we all agree it is worth this much. Helping others to get into the world of skinning and design.
It seems to me that skinning will be very mainstream soon. GUI design has not gotten enough attention as it should and now maybe it will. May companies want a look, IT specailist want to control the users computer at the job, interface design helps worker production, the list continues and is long. Intergration between skinning and IT will get very tight. Web designers and advertising designers will want a GUI that supports and looks like what they want. It would be better to get a community thinking about looking out for ourselves before we cut our nose off to despite our face. There are many associations that got on the balll late and have almost no power or aren't coheisive enough to be useful.
So what do you think????
Graphic User Interface League of Designers.
GUILD (Yes Jafo, it is G.U.I.L.D and oppossed to GUIDING HANDS. I would have used that but I forgot the acranim meaning
)
) 
I am trying to understand what you mean! I am not familiar with the gaming industry nor movie industry. Maybe those branches need skinning the most? Dunno. As far as lay-outs and design for a program a company wants to use, I don't think they really care if it looks grey or red or yellow. I can't imagine a normal company hire a skinner to alter the look and feel of an interface. Important is the program has to work. I can imagine a developer hiring a skinner though. But then I think, like in any artform, the good will always come to the surface and will be able to set prices. As far as protecting a wage of any person there are standards for that. Dunno how you call it, workers union? Companies always want to hire people with the lowest "hiring wage"..If you want to found a designers league and set minimum standards, I think it might be beneficial to those who are already familiar in the skinning area, but they will charge higher hour rates anyway... 
). GUI design (like WindowBlinds and DesktopX) does that very well and could increase productivity as well as give the company a "look" as most company, city, state agencies look for. (as of this moment they moslty have been changing the wallpaper on desktops of city angencies)