Title: How designers and engineers can play nice (and still run with scissors)
Context: We spend more time with them then we do with our family. Isn’t it about time we started to like them too?
Synopsis: Sure we are polar opposites. We like different music (the louder the better vs. you’ve never heard of it), read different books (Skyrim: The Official Game Guide vs. Logotypes: The Untold Story), watch different movies (anything with superheroes vs. anything with subtitles), wear different clothes (the same as yesterday vs. all black, all the time), eat different food (Cheetos vs. chai tea), speak different languages (C++ vs. typography) and pray to different gods (Gates vs. Jobs) but can’t we all just get along? What’s that? Yes we can? Well of course we can. And it’s surprisingly easy. All it takes is a bit of empathy. Walk a mile in your counterparts shoes (be they Chuck Taylors or Doc Martens) to discover that we really aren’t so different after all. Except when it comes to our platform of choice (PC vs. Mac). There we will just have to agree to disagree.
Best Bit: “Drink a beer with your engineer”
via gv.com
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