16: No One's Trying to Make a Shitty Website
How to work and collaborate with developers and how to make sure your designs and expectations are followed-through.
Show Notes
- Sketch 3.7
- Download the beta
- Style are awesome now (overrides)
- Shared Styles now no longer sync automatically
- How you work and interact with engineers? (Question from Jony Heim on Twitter)
- What's the problem?
- Products don't end up like the mockups
- Things are lost in the process
- No one's happy
- Kickoff
- Bring developers early
- While designing
- Ask questions
- Ask for feedback
- Show your work early
- Fresh Eyes session
- Consider edge cases
- Error states
- Internationalization
- Empty states
- Transitions
- No internet connection
- Tip: Bootstrap Grids for example
- 8pt grid
- Handoff
- Prototypes
- Mockups
- Annotations
- Zeplin
- While developing
- Get them to care about good design
- Design reviews
- Any code in the codebase that affects user experience needs to be reviewed by a designer
- Stuff doesn't go out unless we okay it
- What's the problem?
- Aftershow
- Apple Music Ad
- Tesla Model 3