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Designers and Developers Not Working Together and Not Realizing It
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- Description:
- Contemporary application frameworks like Rails bring more designers into contact with application development. Expectations for user experience cause software developers to confront interaction design issues. Each culture holds part of the answer to a mounting crisis in software quality, yet these two cultures often neglect to realize that they talk past each other and continue to fail to learn from each other.
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- What do developers/designers know that the other should know
- What is the impact of developers and designers lack of understanding of each other's culture and work
- What are changes to developers/designers workstyle that have been caused by the influence of the other
- What are some of the observable detriments to developers working without a sense of user/customer experience
- What are some of the observable detriments to designers working without a sense of software patterns/practices
- What methods or approaches can be used to improve communication, understanding, and cooperation
- Is the answer in better tools
- What is the role of "architecture" in unifying the efforts of designers and developers into a more effective whole
- What examples do we have to look to for successes and failures in designer/developer cooperation
- What's at stake if we don't address this issue... is it a looming crisis?
- Level:
- Advanced
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- Other
- Type:
- Panel
- Event:
- SXSW Interactive 2009
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