Why do Design­ers and Devel­op­ers have a seem­ingly adver­sar­ial relationship?

If you’re a Designer you can design the most beau­ti­ful, use­able, rev­o­lu­tion­ary web site but with­out a Devel­oper to assem­ble the nuts and bolts no one will ever get to see it.

As a Devel­oper you can have the clean­est, strictest code con­nect­ing the most amaz­ing ser­vices and doing the most amaz­ing things. But with­out a Designer pre­sent­ing it with an equally great UI no one will ever want to use it.

These two pro­fes­sions are not mutu­ally exclu­sive. There is a rea­son the web is no longer clad in Netscape grey and the real­iza­tion of cloud com­put­ing is upon us.

A quag­mire. Stale­mate. Chicken and the egg scenario?

Just an observation.

About the author

Jeff designs print and web expe­ri­ences for a vari­ety of clients and enjoys shar­ing what he learns along the way. He entered the indus­try at the split of web design from graphic design occurred and is now fas­ci­nated as the two dis­ci­plines are on the cusp of com­ing full cir­cle to merge into a new, media savvy gen­er­a­tion of design­ers. When not crazy busy, Jeff likes geo­caching and con­sum­ing copi­ous amounts of cof­fee. You should fol­low him on Twit­ter and Facebook.