Tuesday, 11 March 2008 - 3:30PM
Abstract:
The all-knowledgable webmaster is long gone, replaced by groups of specialists. When they work well together awesome things happen. When they don’t the results are ugly, insecure, inaccessible and slow, assuming they launch at all. What’s the magic that great teams have in common, and what can we learn from them?Paul Hammond - Flickr
Simon Willison
George Oates - Lead Designer, Flickr
Matt Biddulph - CTO, Dopplr
Dave Shea - mezzoblue.com
Django framework came out of needing to create site quickly. Reminds me of “Speaking of Faith”
There are more than 2.3 billion photos on flickr now.
Designers find themselves to spend more time defending decisions because it is more difficult to layout empirically.
Developers may know what is possible more. Working prototypes may bridge the gap.