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This talk was given by David Park, Senior UI Designer at Salesforce.com at the jQuery conference in Mountain View, California

Why are high-fidelity prototypes important?

My university, Carnegie Mellon, is the 6th most expensive US college for undergraduates. According to the article, 2008-2009 tuition and fees run $39,564 -- and that doesn't include room and board. According to Forbes:

...the school estimates its cost of attendance to be $52,150

The most recent Simpsons episode mentioned Carnegie Mellon University, where I'm a student. CMU even issued a press release, noting that the reference was probably due to "Carnegie Mellon’s reputation as an academically demanding university."

Well, you can judge for yourself:

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?

I attend Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, an extension of the main CMU campus located in a restored naval building on Moffett Field. Our campus currently hosts about 100 students and only a dozen or so professors, and this small size allows us to adopt new social media applications faster than a larger campus with a more complex organization.