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Businesspeople don’t just need to understand designers better; they need to become designers.

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In one relationship, the man may insist on a Kindle while his wife may use a Nook. For other couples, it’s the persistent BlackBerry or iPhone divide or the old PC versus Mac debate. One partner uses a Zune rather than the near-ubiquitous iPod. Others argue the relative appeal of tablets over laptops.

Technology can draw couples closer. …

But not all couples get along technologically. …

As compatible as a couple may be as friends, lovers and domestic partners, technological incompatibility can be infuriating. Because while couples love each other, they also adore their gadgets. Studies have demonstrated that people develop something akin to love for their cellphones, for example. One study found that young Australians believed “their cellphones were part of them.”…

Melody Chalaban, 35, an iPhone user and public relations manager at a software company, and Michael Swain, 35, Android owner and architect, illustrated the Save the Date for their October wedding with the image of an Android robot tossing an Apple logo high into the air. (Which person, if either, emerged the winner is open to interpretation.)