What Every Designer Should Know About Development
As someone who has worked in the web industry for over 10 years, I've seen a lot of friction between designers and developers.
You know that button on the website you want to change? The one that looks like it was designed in 1999? Guess what? It was designed in 1999, and so was the underlying technology. As a design element it's ripe for change, so in your new designs you change it. The only problem is that little change adds a week to development time.
As someone who has worked in the web industry for over 10 years, I've seen a lot of friction between designers and developers.
Please don't get me wrong. Developers like designers who familiarize themselves with the technologies they are designing for.
Imagine this scenario: you want to build a new house, so you hire two people: an architect to design the structure and all the plumbing and wiring...