> For those working in tech/software development teams - do you also find that there's a lot of tension between developers and designers? Quite the opposite: I

> For those working in tech/software development teams - do you also find that there's a lot of tension between developers and designers? Quite the opposite: I typically tend to get along quite well with designers. Perhaps one reason is that I am myself a little bit on the "artistic" side of programming (e.g. with respect to elegance in code). So, assume that in most cases the designer knows a lot more about what (visually) does look good and what does not and trust his judgement. This, of course, assumes that you work with a designers whose artistic style is a good fit for an artistic style that you, as a programmer, appreciate for the project (e.g. should the GUI have a minimalistic, or skeuomorphic, or abstract, or realistic design?). I think that sometimes conflicts between designers and programmers are rather about having a very different opinion/vision on this topic. What value does a designer bring to a project if he is not trusted in his design judgements and design drafts (at least in most cases)? He is intended to be the expert on this topic, and this is part of his role in the project. If such a trust does not exist, the designer simply cannot fill his role in the project. Just to be clear: a quite similar statement holds in my opinion for choosing suitable programmers for your project(s) (even though I think that the very different programming styles that do exist are much more difficult to distinguish for non-programmers than visual styles are to distinguish for non-designers). P.S. "Managers", on the other hand, are often a lot more difficult to handle for me than designers ... I can imagine that my "rather hands-off and trust" approach that works well when working with designers might violate some vanities of some managers. ;-)