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notes from the talk above:

•    technical wife and a design husband: and 9 months later a website is born
•    product development is more like sculpting not painting
•    must know the spectrum of technologies that we use to build the web
•    make revisions while the mocks are “easy to throw away”
•    we have to win lots of arguments as to why we make decisions
•    everyone responds well to having an interface presented to them
•    designers shouldn’t be afraid of developers
•    don’t hand them a spec and say “build that”….have collaboration early on.
•    “it’s difficult for me to respect something I don’t understand”
•    “developers know what’s possible more than designers”
•    everyone on this panel is a generalist
•    the voice of your product is something important for everyone to understand
•    “process is an anecdote to stupid people”
•    how can designers make themselves easier to work with? “show you’re working”, ie: share philosophical pretensions/beliefs, explain the models in their thinking.
•    learn SVN
•    the design quality of your prototype should reflect how done your actual product is

Overall, the talk was a high quality hour of discussion from battle-tested people. It’ll help to guide me on what I should be learning more of (“the spectrum of technologies that we use to build the web”, SVN) and how I should be interacting with people going forward.