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Why Designers Should Understand How Developers Work ?

Arya Soni on September 16, 2019

As designers it’s easy to get annoyed with developers. Perhaps they can’t get the alignment of a button right; or that feature you deemed critical ...
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Suzanne Aitchison

I agree with a lot of what you've said here - nice post! 😊

Personally I've found the UX around error paths to be the biggest area where close collaboration between design and engineering makes such a huge difference. Accessibility too - input from both sides is essential to get the best experience at the end of the day!

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Chris Achard

Great point about how relatively small design changes could mean big headaches for devs. Nice first post!