Art directors vs. designers

Everyone knows there are differences between art directors and designers, but not many people are able to tell what those differences are. Managers and stakeholders usually say, art directors are expensive and designers cheap, if the designers can get the job done, is...

Meetings. Do they have to be evil?

Most of the people hate meetings most of the time. Then why do we still have them? The ideal situation will be not to have any meeting at all but that is not realistic. Reducing the number of necessary meetings by adopting management tools such as Basecamp, Trac,...