SXSW 2008: Creative Collaboration

Slide 1: Creative Collaboration Building Web Apps Together

Slide 2: http://flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/1433992984/

Slide 3: www.flickr.com

Slide 4: <geek>

Slide 7: The team Andrew Bowden – Client-side Developer Andrew Webb – Picture Editor Andy Harris – Client-side Developer Annabel Else – Producer/Project Manager Carol Patten – Homepage Designer Caroline Smith – User Experience Designer Christina Nsamba – Project Manager Gee-Kay Wong – Usability Manager Gideon Bullock – Senior User Experience Designer Jonathan Kingsbury – Head of Editorial Affairs Julie Dodd – User Experience Designer Mark Hewis – Development Team Leader Paul Hammond – Senior Client-side Developer Steve Hunt – Information Architect Steve Rogers – Head of Design and Navigation Tim Noble – Senior Operations Co-ordinator Tony Ageh – Head of Search, Listings and Core Web Venus Speedwell – Homepage Manager Victoria Conlan – Perl Developer Zoe Davenport – Homepage Designer

Slide 8: http://flickr.com/photos/straup/542624102/

Slide 9: Designer Developer

Slide 11: DOPPLR

Slide 13: Design Husband

Slide 16: Live testing

Slide 17: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmartin/32010732/

Slide 18: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tmartin/32010732/ Sculpting, not painting

Slide 20: Simon Willison

Slide 21: • Currently: freelance developer and consultant focusing on JavaScript, OpenID and Django • Previously: • Small Yahoo! team building prototypes • The Lawrence Journal-World newspaper • My visual design skills suck, but I’m competent at numerous other design disciplines

Slide 22: Lawrence Journal-World • Local newspaper for a small town in Kansas • Two developers, one designer (doubling as HTML and CSS engineer), a bunch of editorial staff • Several award winning websites • “Web development on journalism deadlines” • We originally built Django to support the demands of that environment

Slide 23: A parallel workflow with Django • Developers design the underlying data model • Automated admin interface allows content producers to start entering data straight away • Meanwhile, developers are building the logic for the public facing pages • Developers hand stub templates to designer (friendly template language) • This works great for sites that are defined by their data

Slide 25: Today... • More of my work involves applications • Continuing collaboration with a designer is essential right from the start • I need a “design husband” for my personal projects

Slide 27: DAVE SHEA

Slide 28: DAVE SHEA

Slide 29: DESIGNER

Slide 30: DESIGNER WHO CODES

Slide 31: INDEPENDENT

Slide 32: BASIC COLLABORATION !

Slide 33: BASIC COLLABORATION ! ! !

Slide 34: INVOLVED COLLABORATION ! ! !

Slide 36: George!

Slide 37: Iʼve worked at Flickr since it was born on February 10, 2004

Slide 38: Paper & whiteboard

Slide 39: Hats interface designer visual designer copywriter project manager product manager program manager community wrangler customer care provider information architect webmonkey etc

Slide 40: The core dev team has grown from 3 (5) to 16 (40)

Slide 41: The core dev team has grown from 3 (5) to 16 (40) (With a supporting cast of well over 100 people)

Slide 42: There are well over 2.3 billion photos

Slide 43: There are well over 2.3 billion photos (This still freaks me out.)

Slide 44: Our membership has grown to 20 million

Slide 45: Our membership has grown to 20 million (YAY! But, how does that change things?)

Slide 46: Whatʼs happened to release early, release often?

Slide 48: Q&A http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamperegrino/250854500/