The skills most important to today's designers are actually a fused mix of development savvy, visual acuity and clear communication. These slides were presented at Web2Expo to kick off the The New Hybrid Designer panel featuring Chris Messina, Kelly Goto, Richard MacManus and Jeremy Keith (Emily Chang couldn't make it).

1. The New
Hybrid Designer
Going from 1.0 to 2.0

2. 1.0 2.0

3. 1.0 2.0

4. Split brain
No sense of smell
Passion for
solving problems
Ginormous abs
Click Dexterity
Rock-star
coding fingers
Runners
Dunstan, hybrid designer

5. Web 2 for designers
1. Writing semantic 4. Emergent navigation
markup (transition to and relevance (users
XML) are in control)
2. Providing Web 5. Adding metadata
services (moving over time
away from place) (communities building
social information)
3. Remixing content
(about when and 6. Shift to programming
what, not who or why) (separation of
structure and style)
Web 2.0 for Designers, by Richard MacManus & Joshua Porter