I work at a very large web company with a very formalized engineering-centric org which owns (among other things) the production HTML/CSS/JS. I've been very lucky to work very closely with our front-end devs. We don't sit near each other normally, but as each project hits the heavy-coding phase(s), we squat together in a conference room or hop cubes to make sure we can collaborate easily.
The relationships between designers and front-end developers varies greatly by group though, and just yesterday I heard that some other engineers were appalled that ours let designers even cut and optimize graphics! I used to be a front-end dev in a previous life. While I generally agree with Jack and prefer to forget constraints while initially designing, I have found the greatest success working as closely as possible with developers. And a little bit of common ground and understanding only helps make the communication easier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=41475 ________________________________________________________________ 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
