Over the Fence - Designers and Developers Working Together

Traditionally work flows between designers and developers have been misunderstood and often lead to miscommunication and frustration amongst team members. Who does what and when? Where are responsibility boundaries drawn? Is it good enough for a designer to throw their comps over the fence? How much can a developer ask a designer to do? Jordan Knight and Alex Knight draw the battle lines in this interesting debate and demonstrate working solutions to the above problems. See how tooling and convention can help introduce understanding and a smooth flow of work (and responsibility) between the warring camps.

  • Difficulty: General
  • Prerequisites: Some Silverlight experience would be useful but certainly not essential.
  • Session Track: Safe for Managers,RIA

Session Detail

This session will see these solutions implemented in Silverlight, but the lessons learned can be taken and applied to most tool sets and platforms.

Speakers

Jordan Knight (Melbourne, Australia)

Jordan is a Senior Developer with Readify and has over 8 years experience with the .NET framework. Initially specialising in ASP.NET he has more recently been concentrating on client technologies, especially JavaScript and Silverlight. More...

Alex Knight (Melb, Australia)

Alex is a designer with more than five years commercial experience. He runs the successful design company AGK Design in Melbourne, mainly working within Silverlight. More...

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