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Easing The Path From Design to Development

18 May 2009

Earlier this month, I ran a half day workshop at Future of Web Design London on the subject of easing the path from design to development. The premise was that lots of people experience difficulty and even conflict at this point in projects, which can cause substantial derailments.

As a company who work providing development services to primarily design agencies and startups, this is an area we deal with day to day, and I think one that we’re pretty good at making as smooth as possible. So I was pleased to put something together on this subject when the guys at Carsonified asked if I could run a workshop.

At 3.5 hours, there’s a lot of material which doesn’t make much sense as a deck of slides without the commentary. I had over 600 slides. Instead of putting all those up on slideshare, I figured it would be more useful to publish the outline I created the slides from. Outline: Easing the Path from Design to Development

Thanks to the guys at Carsonified for asking me to contribute – FOWD London 2009 was a really great event.

- Drew McLellan

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.