Great article by Dan Saffer, from Adaptive Path, attempting to bridge the gap between how designers and developers try to communicate. As as one trained and practicing visual design since the days of stat cameras and Rubylith (not Ruby-on-Rails), the article is a great reminder of the same problems, different generation. It's all about being able to communicate across disciplines - trying to understand the other side. The tools have gotten pretty complex, however. Working the CSS code on this blog template gives me a greater understanding and appreciation of what developers do all day. I find coding at my baby-steps level is full of mystery and trepidation, especially when I can't see that I've left out an all important semicolon and nothing works. Someday, maybe I too will be able to say "code is poetry".

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