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These are my notes from Earl Miles' talk on January 24, 2010 at Design4Drupal at the Stanford Law School. The talk was titled Designing with Drupal. It started out with Earl saying:

This is an observation of how it's difficult for new designers to design for Drupal.

This talk was given on January 23, 2010 by Jon Skulski at Stanford University. I've written up my notes below. Enjoy!

This talk is about how can designers can focus on making a website easy to build. What reasonable elements can I use on my site to make it easy to launch. I work as a developer in Chapter Three in San Francisco, a design and development firm.

As a Drupal Architect, I'm an interface between designers and development of the site.

Earlier today I attended a talk at CMU by Ryan Troll, Director of Engineering at Yahoo! He spoke on the topic of change management and how to instigate large changes at Yahoo. Obviously as Director of Engineering, he has a fair bit of authority at Yahoo in this area, but he still runs into surprising resistance. He posed a question: how would you get every group in Yahoo to agree on a middleware templating language?