Published on <a href="https://blog.prototypr.io/the-one-thing-i-sometimes-really-hate-about-good-design-is-all-the-writing-e856db16422f?source=rss----eb297ea1161a---4">| Prototyping: From UX to Front End &mdash; Medium</a> Philipp Tautz 
The one thing I sometimes really hate about good design is all the writing.
Good designers write.
Good coders write.
I do fundamentally disagree with people who think that good design speaks for itself, simply because it’s a total misconception of reality.
Design is not created in a vacuum. Design is created in context and (imagery) conversation with the end user / customer / Developer (if there is one) / printer (if there is one) / engineer (if there is one), etc.
Good design needs documentation. And good documentation means good writing.
I am reworking my portfolio right now. It’s an exercise in writing as much as it is in pushing vectors and some pixels. It is also good training.
In my current job (as UX designer) I have to write a lot, even if I develop stuff myself. There will be people interacting with my designs, with my code. It should help them to know what I was trying to do.
But for crying out loud, as much as I love writing; keeping myself short (which makes for good and understandable documentation) is hard. I am a really bad editor. Hence, I sometimes really hate all the writing that comes with (good) design.
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