sxsw 2008: creative collaboration

Creative CollaborationBuilding Web Apps Together

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The teamAndrew Bowden – Client-side DeveloperAndrew Webb – Picture EditorAndy Harris – Client-side DeveloperAnnabel Else – Producer/Project ManagerCarol Patten – Homepage DesignerCaroline Smith – User Experience DesignerChristina Nsamba – Project ManagerGee-Kay Wong – Usability ManagerGideon Bullock – Senior User Experience DesignerJonathan Kingsbury – Head of Editorial AffairsJulie Dodd – User Experience DesignerMark Hewis – Development Team LeaderPaul Hammond – Senior Client-side DeveloperSteve Hunt – Information ArchitectSteve Rogers – Head of Design and NavigationTim Noble – Senior Operations Co-ordinatorTony Ageh – Head of Search, Listings and Core WebVenus Speedwell – Homepage ManagerVictoria Conlan – Perl DeveloperZoe Davenport – Homepage Designer

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Designer ♥ Developer

DOPPLRDOPPLR

DOPPLR

Where next?Where next?

Where next?

Design Husband

Live testing

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Sculpting, not painting

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Simon Willison

• Currently: freelance developer and consultant focusing on JavaScript, OpenID and Django

• Previously:

• Small Yahoo! team building prototypes

• The Lawrence Journal-World newspaper

• My visual design skills suck, but I’m competent at numerous other design disciplines

Lawrence Journal-World

• Local newspaper for a small town in Kansas

• Two developers, one designer (doubling as HTML and CSS engineer), a bunch of editorial staff

• Several award winning websites

• “Web development on journalism deadlines”

• We originally built Django to support the demands of that environment

A parallel workflow with Django

• Developers design the underlying data model

• Automated admin interface allows content producers to start entering data straight away

• Meanwhile, developers are building the logic for the public facing pages

• Developers hand stub templates to designer (friendly template language)

• This works great for sites that are defined by their data

Today...

• More of my work involves applications

• Continuing collaboration with a designer is essential right from the start

• I need a “design husband” for my personal projects

DAVE SHEA

DAVE SHEA

DESIGNER

DESIGNER WHO CODES

INDEPENDENT

BASIC COLLABORATION

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BASIC COLLABORATION

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INVOLVED COLLABORATION

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George!

Iʼve worked at Flickr since it was born

on February 10, 2004

Paper & whiteboard

interface designervisual designer

copywriterproject manager product managerprogram manager

community wrangler customer care provider

information architectwebmonkey etc

Hats

The core dev team hasgrown from 3 (5) to 16 (40)

The core dev team hasgrown from 3 (5) to 16 (40)

(With a supporting cast of well over 100 people)

There are well over2.3 billion photos

There are well over2.3 billion photos

(This still freaks me out.)

Our membership hasgrown to 20 million

Our membership hasgrown to 20 million

(YAY! But, how does that change things?)

Whatʼs happened to release early, release often?

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