It has been seen that designers never become good developers and developers can never become good designers. Both consider themselves smart and they always live in the misconception that no website or mobile application can be created without them. In this case, how should the designer and the developer work together?
Nowadays IT companies also give jobs to those designers who know a little bit of coding and give value to those developers who have an understanding of design.
What does UI Designer do?
The UI designer uses his research and design skills to understand the needs of the user and create a concept design in which how will the visual components be? How will the template look? What will be the user flow? It thinks as well as interface design in software like Photoshop keeping in mind typography, colors, usability and navigation.
What does UI Developer do?
The UI Developer adds functionality to any design with the help of its technical capabilities, making it interactive. How will the pages run? How will links and navigation work? Keep in mind all these things, as well as the website should be visible properly on any browser, that is why he uses HTML, CSS, Javascript, and other programming languages.
How do designers and developers work together?
- Respect each other - It is seen that these two do not respect each other's work. See, if you respect, then only you will get respect.
- Clear Communication - Talk to each other. Before starting the project, decide about the process completely. For example, who will do what and how and when to deliver what?
- Give importance to the project - Give importance to the project more than itself.
The designer has to forget his EGO (ego) on the side and also take the input of the developer, because after all we are making a good product for our user. So if the product becomes good then everyone will benefit.
The developer also has to leave his EGO (ego) at home and do not ignore the designer's ideas. The developer should not understand that the designer does not have the technical knowledge, so he can silence it.
Designer and Developer need to keep these things in mind while working together:
- During the discussion, decide how the functionality will work and what kind of technology will be required for it.
- The designer will brief the developer at the beginning of how the style guides have been made. how is typography? How are interactive and responsive elements placed? So that the developer does not make any mistake while coding and the project end on time.
- When the developer works with the data, he should tell the designer how it will look in real. It must also be told that the design is not visible properly in different screen sizes and browsers so that the designer can fix it.
- It is also important to tell whether the designer will give all the design elements such as colors, fonts, icons, etc. to the developer or the developer himself has to extract all the elements from the source file (PSD or AI). Naming conventions also have to be taken care of.
By working together, the project will be good and at the same time, you will be able to focus properly on the goals of the project, because, in the end, we mean by making a good website / mobile application that our users like and use again and again.
And what are the things that you think a designer or developer should keep in mind while working together? Tell us in the comments.
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