Meta Refresh 2013

The great designer-developer treaty negotiations of 2013.

Outline

Every day, the same damn noise.

You walk in, grab some coffee. 10 mins later, the developers and designers set out to kill each other.

• “This can’t be converted to html, css isn’t good enough for it. Don’t you understand the medium?”
• “Yeah well, the psd was clear about the whitespace, you just didn’t care”
• “Perhaps I should visit each of our 100k visitors and give them your custom font pack cd?”
• “This change should only take 5 minutes, what’s taking you so long?”
• “It’s been a week and you’re just finishing the logo?!”
• “this isn’t what I designed at all”
• “this design involves breaking a law of physics”
• “%#$%@&”
• “%$#@$%#W$#”

Every. Damn. Day.

I have some ideas on how to fix it. Let’s talk.

Speaker bio

Sunil Pai is a modern day hippie who’s afraid of design reviews, exception handling, and bellybuttons.

He’s spoken at hasgeek and blorejs events
and worked at a bunch of places, including visa, yahoo, idiom, the GOI, and his uncle’s garage.