The New Link Between Designer and Developer

Scott Kinder writes "Ryan Stewart of ZDNet discusses the importance of the workflow between designers and developers. Both Adobe and Microsoft have a lot at stake in their respective software projects. Given how important experience is in making software, ensuring that it is easy for designers and developers to work together is more important than ever." From the article: "The key here is going to be the workflow between designers and developers and making sure that the tools support both types of content creators. Creating world class RIAs simply will not be possible without an efficient workflow between the two areas. Adobe has focused a lot on incorporating Adobe and Macromedia products, making sure that designers can easily move between both companies software. But they haven't quite perfected the designer/developer workflow, and I think Microsoft has a bit of a head start here. The Expression Suite seems built from the ground up to work well with their developer tools. The question will be whether or not designers will use these new tools."

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lazy designers

[Anonymous Coward]

In my experience, designers are lazy f***ers. Integration software is useless. Get them to draw up a design and pass it along to the coders where they can deal with integrating it. Then the designer can get on with going back to sleep.

This idea of a design passing between coders and designers frequently and being modified as they go is idealogical claptrap. Get the design done right first time and then have the designer go back to the hole where they came from.