It’s often said that the world is getting smaller. Of course, it’s not physically getting smaller, but rather, that statement alludes to the fact that the distances that used to separate people are more manageable today because of the improvements in communication and travel.
This could not be truer on the Internet where communication is instantaneous. A letter that would have taken days to arrive could be read and replied to within minutes via email. Documents that would otherwise take days to arrive, now only take a few milliseconds.
Of course, working on the Internet is not without its drawbacks. Working together on our newest venture, Design Instruct, was quite revelatory in that regard as my brother and I endeavored to work from different parts of the globe.
This article is part of Design Instruct Week, a weeklong celebration of our newly launched site,Design Instruct. This week on Six Revisions covers topics that deal with running websites and design, written by the founders/editors of Design Instruct and Six Revisions. Be sure to check out the Design Instruct Week Twitter Giveaway, which gives out different prizes every day of Design Instruct Week.
The Case: Design Instruct
If you’ve been keeping up with Six Revisions over the last month, you would have read about our new website called Design Instruct, which is a new web magazine offering tutorials focused on the visual arts such as design, illustration, photography, and art direction. It is a site born out of our passion for the creative arts and we wanted to share that passion with people.
Design Instruct is our first real venture together. It is the first time my brother and I sought to actually build something of our own (unless of course you count all the make-believe forts we built when we were kids).
It was also the first time we actually started working together. And as if getting used to working together wasn’t enough, we had to do it in disparate geographical locations.
There are many challenges associated with working with someone over a long distance. However, we found that there are solutions to those challenges, and so far, we’ve managed to make it work.
I share with you the areas of our workflow that posed some challenges, and the methods by which we overcame them.
Problem #1: Staying in sync
Working with people in the same town is hard enough. My brother and I are working from opposite sides of the globe.
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