Great opening session at
SXSW Interactive on Web Design as an art and profession seeking Respect!
We create the web. Yet twelve years and two bubbles into its history, we get no respect as a profession. And nobody understands what we do, unless we're selling to Google or Yahoo. How can architects, designers, writers and coders work with clients, journalists and the public to foster understanding and get their best work produced?Jeffrey Zeldman of
Happy Cog had the best take-away line on the designer-developer relationship with his admission that
design is a dictatorship.