Simply put, if a designer creates a design without the involvement of a developer, they're bound to have to go back to the drawing board often and get frustrated that their work as been ‘ destroyed by the developer”.
The key to a good end-result: developers and designers need to start working together from the get-go. Partners in a relationship need to understand what works (and what doesn't) for both of them before they can make more serious commitments. So, let's think of the developer-designer as a relationship. They need to communicate well if you want to create a good end product. Having designers in one country and developers in another is the order of the day.īut designers and developers need each other. The communication problem is made that much harder in today's environments, where remote working, different geographies, cultures, and languages, different timezones are all business-as-usual. Those who think creatively need to establish a way to communicate correctly with those who think rationally / logically. Designers are right-brained, developers are left-brained. In reality, designers and developers are very different from each other. …a serious breakdown of communication between the designers and developers.A lack of good tools / communication frameworks in place leading to ….We can't fit this design into the development framework we are using”Īlthough you'll frequently hear comments such as the above, in my eyes, they're stemming from two main problems “Designing in Photoshop is easy, you don't have any limitations imposed by code. “This design is impossible to replicate in HTML/CSS, this is as close as we can get.” “How can we create a beautiful design if the developers will just screw it up?” And from the developers: “We came up with a really beautiful design, but the developers really mucked things up.
If you've been working in product development, web development, web design or most other areas where designers and developer work together, you've probably seen or heard at least one of the following (or something similar to it): From the designers:
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