Concept
Web Creator
Design
Technology & AIWhat is a web creator?
A web creator is a professional who both designs and builds websites, joining skills that used to belong to web designers and to developers. The Agency editorial lists the role as a bonus among the roles of design and says the title was first coined by Elementor.
In short
The role grew with website builders and no-code tools, which let one person take a site from layout to publication. Elementor, a website builder for WordPress launched in 2016, uses the name for its community of users. Design.3 presents web creators after the six main roles of design, under the heading BONUS. It describes them as jack-of-all-trades who carry the proficiencies and understand not only how to design for the web but also how to implement websites and make things happen.
Key facts
- Who coined the title web creator, according to the article?
- Elementor. The article opens the passage by calling web creators a title first coined by Elementor.
- What do web creators do?
- They are the intermediaries of what was once known as web designers and developers. They understand not only how to design for the web but also how to implement websites and make things happen.
- Where do web creators appear in the article?
- As a bonus at the end of the section on the many roles of design, after creative directors, art directors, UX/UI designers, motion designers, 3D designers and industrial designers.
What is a web creator?
A web creator is someone who takes a website from idea to publication without handing it from a designer to a programmer. The role became possible with visual website builders, which turn design decisions directly into working pages. Elementor, a builder for WordPress sites launched in 2016, adopted the expression to name the professionals who work with it, and the term spread from there.
How does the web creator appear in the Agency editorial?
Design.3 gives web creators a short paragraph under the heading BONUS: Web Creators, at the end of its tour of the roles of design. The author credits the title to Elementor and defines the role by what it joins: the work of web designers and the work of developers.
The article uses the idiom jack-of-all-trades for them, saying they carry the proficiencies of both sides. The paragraph prepares the last section of the edition, in which web design and UX design are described as fields.
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