Design 21: Social Design Network

From the website:

The mission of OneWebDay is to create, maintain, advance and promote a global day to celebrate online life: September 22

OneWebDay - September 22

"Sometimes I wonder... is my work beautiful because I'm beautiful... or am I beautiful because my work is beautiful... it is probably a little of both"

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Richard Ziade from Arc90 makes an interesting point on his post Design Leads The Way:

Design leads the way. This is rare. Really rare. Here, development - the construction company - doesn't make a single move until the design is created, tested, validated, and ideally, refined again. Only once presented to the development group can they give their assessment.

Since almost everyone here is a designer and I, as a developer, find myself most of the times on the other side of the fence, would like to hear your opinions:

• Do you think that's the best approach to the construction process?
• How do you deal with us cold engineers saying "NO" to your carefully designed feature?
• Do you think that iniciatives like 'Hug your Designer' day would help to strenghten the designer-engineer bond?