Here’s an enlightening write-up of how political campaigns develop their proprietary technology. It’s a shame how much time, effort, and money is spent on creating software that will likely be relegated to the dust bin when the campaign is over.

via Scripting News

John Maeda: “In reality, design is not that important” landed in my inbox on Friday. Such a provocative link really baits one into clicking on it immediately, doesn’t it?

Maeda brings up some excellent points here, different disciplines do really need to work together to create things. Designers don’t have a monopoly on great ideas, nor do developers or product managers. Teamwork, people!