When we first put the idea and mockups in front of Ben Brumfield, the lead developer for the project, his enthusiasm erased any doubt we might have had about how far we could actually go. For designers, after all, that road between concept and implementation is seldom trod faithfully. I mean, the concept is like the charted course at the beginning of the voyage, and one can only hope s/he doesn’t end up like Columbus in a totally different place, on an unpredicted, unplanned route.

We’re very thankful to say the designer/developer rift prevalent in much of our industry didn’t exist at all in this project. And what was produced is, I think, a rather pleasant and rich user experience. From static experience to a fluid, inline, fully CRUD (create, read, update, delete) UI, we were pleased at the result:

This cross-posted from the original post on our Convio company blog.