Designgineering
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Argues engineers and designers must learn each other’s craft and shows concrete tactics: designers prototype in HTML and CSS rather than PSD, use Inkscape and SVG and icon fonts, and engineers apply interaction design principles. Cites being hired as roughly the 20th employee at Wikimedia and working on a visual editor for Wikipedia, describes cultural prejudice when title is “engineer,” and reports that shared vocabulary, user testing, and prototypes cut bike-shedding and prevent costly refactors.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 7:29Intellectual Monogamy
- 9:27Renaissance Humanism
- 11:17Nurture Favors a Diligent Mind
- 12:11The Experience of a Designer in an Open-Source Project
- 21:37Interaction Design
- 27:58Be Patient
- 28:09Patience
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