The second talk on the 1st day of @mediAjax was an entertaining talk from Mike Stenhouse about the upskilling necessary to be a good designer in a modern web development team and how Ajax makes it even more-so: Ajax means you're designing the user experience and need to know how that's going to interact with the server, which means you need to know some JavaScript, front-end and back-end code etc. He talked about experience using Agile and "scrum" development methodologies, pair development, which differs from "pair programming" in that the designer and developer work together on the design or the code, and the insights that enables. The most interesting bit from my pov was how neatly this ties-in with my interests in combining our "Web Development" field with Design (from a different Faculty) ... web designers and web developers are not such separate jobs these days.
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