AlexAitken.net

A yank in the UK who runs a four-days-per-week web agency, has up­wards of 26k Twit­ter fol­low­ers, and hangs (at least vir­tu­ally) with oth­er big names like Veen, Heil­man, and Snook, it seems Ry­an Car­son gets his work and is pas­sion­ate about bring­ing it to oth­ers. He also re­cently caused a stir with a tweet and ac­com­pa­ny­ing blog post in which he pos­ited that "UX Pro­fes­sion­al is a bull­shit job title" and that only two people – a web de­sign­er and a web de­veloper – were needed to cre­ate a web site or app. I think UX Pros have their place. The piece I honed in on, however, was the single de­veloper con­ten­tion. Web site? Sure. But are we reas­on­ably ex­pect­ing de­velopers to build mod­ern and per­form­ant web apps end to end right when new devices and web stand­ards are adding fur­ther (al­beit ex­cit­ing) com­plex­ity to the task? I don’t know…