Corporate Hairball

The past two days I have been in meetings with a website committee of a large corporation. We are helping them to architect the redesign of their site. This is my first experience with a big corporate client on their home turf. It was a very surreal experience, getting a visitor pass at the security desk, walking past rows and rows of cubicles, sitting in a conference room with 15 other people trying to design. This new world has it's own language, traditions, and culture. At first I was intimidated by these strange folk, their blank stares and embroidered polos, but during lunch I found some common ground and was able to pretend these creatures might be human.