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over 4 years ago from John Doe
Everyone who takes a photo is a photographer. Everyone who design something is a designer. To be good or better at doing is something else. A good designer should have the skill to analyse and point why a bad design doesn't work. Usually bad skill are because are linked to subjective opinions. Understanding functionality and really solving problem with design is the key.
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I wouldn't say that someone who takes a photo with their phone is a photographer, in the same way that someone who draws a picture on Paint is not a designer or a painter.
In any case, the hardest question to answer here is: what's the designer aesthetic eye? Is he born with it and it's not obtainable in any other way? That would mean that no, not everyone can be a designer.