As a former design professional, I've worked on many large projects from the ground (literally) up. The construction process begins with engineering, architecture, space planning, followed by construction and last, interior design.
Web development is odd because most web projects are built backwards: design, then construction and then shoehorning in the engineering at the end of the project. Rion Morgenstern, CIO at SiteLab feels this is a carry-over from the days when building an html page with inline code was one step which may explain the dysfunction in the entire process.
