Although I do appreciate the input and advice that you have posted for the world to read, I think that some things in life should be paid for. This kind of information is vital for the new designer. My point is a book is better than a blog because it allows for professionals like yourself to be able to eat. Even if it’s an electronicly published book. Which we all know sells for less money. At least the “INCOME” factor will not be taken out of the picture for intelligent beings such as yourself.

Thank you for the information,
Chazzdaddy Austin.

I hear that before I came, there was a real divide between the two departments and that they wouldn’t talk to each other. Part of that was probably because they were on opposite coasts. It was also probably because we had a really clunky mockup process that had designers sending engineers complete HTML pages over and over again as higher ups made changes. I could see where that would drive anyone to fisticuffs!

We use a framework now that allows designers to muck around with the front-end code, and things are much better. We can work in tandem with the developers instead of throwing HTML around. Development time is shorter, too.

Also, I think Friday Design+Development lunches makes everyone happier

I illustrate a lot of my concepts as stories in conversation already (a habit that lead to my making comics), but I have a tendency to focus too much on the details. I have to remind myself to pick up the pace.

I thank you sir for the info.

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