2 posts tagged with "design systems"

I’ve been working for over a year to improve the working relationship between web designers and engineers. The current best practice is characterized by the “design handoff”, where designers provide pictures of app screens to engineers for implementation. Approaching this problem, it’s hard not to notice a grassy knoll littered with tombstones: the hill that others have died on, trying and failing to “eliminate the handoff”.

The Great Divide:

• designers and engineers are separated by process
• collaborative design tools bring everyone into process… except engineers
• it doesn’t have to be this way