A Website Named Desire

One day I was sitting in my office and Nishant Kothary who was not a member of my team at the time* came to me with an idea. He explained his idea of a poster which would show all the different roles within an agency or organization that builds websites. I thought this was a great idea because I believe a lot of folks typically think all it takes is the stereotypical “nerdy” developer and “turtleneck-wearing” designer and I didn’t want to see the delivery as yet another boring Microsoft whitepaper. Luckily I had some budget so we moved forward with the idea and the good folks at XPLANE.

The poster is awesome! It is one of those posters where you can stare at it and find something fun and exciting. But Nishant didn’t stop there. He also created a microsite at www.awebsitenameddesire.com which uses Silverlight’s Deep Zoom technology so that you can zoom in on the poster to see the details. One of my favorites is the front-end web developer who has a simple shrine to Jeffrey Zeldman who is one of my idols as well. Can you find it?

Also, we are making these posters available at various events. You can find out where those events are on the website as well. Be sure to sign up for the Twitter feed so that you can get news about the poster as we have plans to do some more interesting things.

My question to you is, which role(s) do you find yourself in?  What’s your favorite thing about the poster?

* Nishant is now a member of my new team. What does my team do? It is a secret that will soon be known. Details coming soon…