The Relationship Between Designer and Developer:
As a designer I need to gain an understanding of how you would work together with a developer so that things are clearly communicated and there is an understanding on both sides. This will help produce a design that is both beautiful and functional. Without this communication the user experience you provide your users will lack efficiency, engagement, and value.
Things to consider:
Open Communication
Designers and developers often see things very differently as well, as a result of their own skills, talents, and strengths. For that reason alone, the most important guideline to follow when you’re working on a design project is that you should be keeping the door of communication constantly open.
Inclusions in Meetings
All parties involved in the design and development process should be present during all discussions to avoid confusion or a lack of consistency at a later time.
Loop in Development with Deliverables
Looping in a developer and maintaining excellent communication with each and every deliverable ensures that everyone is on the same page. The back and forth game can be seemingly endless—changes, feedback, and even the smallest edits can be time consuming.
Be Open Minded
Always be open to ideas from the development team—even during the design phases. Ask for suggestions, hold review meetings for deliverables you’re unsure of, and discuss your designs before you present them to the client with those outside of your direct team.
Knowledge of Development
Having a sense of how things work with development can go a long way with achieving goals and setting project expectations.
Continual Learning
Any time you’re working with development, and they come back to you saying that something isn’t feasible given constraints of the project or a certain platform, ask that they explain the reasoning behind this particular road block. This ties into the idea above of deepening your knowledge of development. Once they’ve explained why something won’t work, you can learn from it, use that knowledge to limit your future mistakes and stay on track for projects and tasks moving forward.
Stay on Top of Industry Trends
Learning about new tools being used, or innovations that are allowing for new integrations and features can translate into major advancements in your projects. Staying informed will help you to understand what you should be designing, because development can effectively implement your ideas into the bigger project.
Create Prototypes
As a designer, your skills are probably closely linked with your ability to be creative. Leverage that talent and use available time that you may have to create prototypes for different designs. Showcase new animations you’ve tried out, share unique hover effects that you find intriguing, or highlight design elements that you’ve seen take a project to the next level. Don’t worry about functionality with something like this, simply focus on the design and getting feedback from developers and peers.
Quality Assurance
Typically, quality assurance is done by developers, but as a designer, you should ask to be included in this process. If you worked on the project, you want to make sure that it mirrors the design mockups you’ve created. Someone with a design background sees things differently than someone with a development background. You may pick up on an issue with font or spacing that otherwise would go overlooked. Working together during this final step ensures that your project is not only functional but that it is designed with beautiful aesthetics too.
Designer and Development Collaboration
Using the abilities from both teams in tandem provides a certain edge that is impossible without collaboration.
My thoughts:
After reading through this information what is clear to me is how important communication and collaboration are to produce a beautiful and functional design. This allows you to produce the best possible outcomes. I also think that learning a bit about what developers do is important to develop as you will understand things a lot quicker and will be able to communicate more clearly.
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- https://uxmag.com/articles/the-relationship-between-designers-and-developers
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