Richard, My experience, in both agencies and large corporations, is that the front-end team tends to be semi-autonomous, but organizationally closer (and often beneath) the back-end or systems teams. Ironic, since the good ones tend to be more philosophically aligned with Design teams.
The level of ability varies greatly, but your question was implicitly condescending when you asked, "more than *just* HTML/CSS/Javascript." Besides the intricacies and broad design and SEO ramifications of quality HTML work, in today's web applications, Javascript is often the principal tool in creating rich internet application experiences. As such, empowered front-end developers are often more attuned to Design's wants/needs as well as the means to deliver on them. The only company type which I've found to take substantial advantage of this affinity is the start-up, but even then it's a total crap-shoot. ~ yoni Jonathan S. Knoll email: [email protected] web: http://infinityplusone.com/ linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanknoll twitter: @yoni On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Richard Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > Who codes your production quality HTML/CSS/Javascript? Where in the > organization do they sit and do they do more than just > HTML/CSS/Javascript (ie, Java, mid-tier, etc)? > > I'm trying to gauge how closely connected to the Design resources > they are, are they more aligned to Design or more to Development? > > - Richard > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
