Designers Are More Desirable Than Engineers

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Tinder for professionals analyzed their data on who startup people on their site wanted to meet and wrote a post about it.

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Given that a large number of founders are engineers, it would make sense that founders want to talk with designers over engineers--it's a critical skill that they may lack and for which they have an immediate need. The remainder of founders likely come from the business category, which would explain the low numbers there.

The article says that they made a best effort to bucket each group based on LinkedIn profile. It's not clear how the overlap between founder status and the other relevant groups was handled. I seems that it would make sense to break the founders group out to a separate category.

Slightly off-topic but still relevant question, what's the best resource to learn design as a complete noob?

A book to get started on aesthetics/graphics design; or a tools book like Photoshop/InDesign. Or should one try to poke around the Wordpress themes and tweak it?

How old are you? Have you at any point in your life exhibited any kind of talent for being artistic? I ask this because I don't think someone can grind and learn their way through design as someone can when it comes to development.

Since the statistics are drawn from a single new site, over a few weeks, i'm not sure you can generalize the findings from such a small sample.

It sounds more likely that the site has not attracted enough pure designers yet.

The data is not sourced. Also, the title is bad and incendiary, and willingness to meet is not at all equatable to desirability.

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