Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
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15 Nov, 2024
Design Systems Q&A
I recently had the pleasure of doing a Q&A session with Molly Helmuth’s Design System Bootcamp cohort. The questions were great and varied, so I asked Molly if she’d be alright if I shared my answers with you all. Thankfully, […]
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04 Oct, 2024
Design systems die in darkness
When you don’t hear from teams using your design system, we’ve learned over the years that it’s typically not a sign of “everything is going great” but “something is probably wrong.” We teach our client teams to be very skeptical […]
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01 Feb, 2024
The Gulf Between Design and Engineering / Design Systems International
The most crucial mistake in the collaboration between designers and engineers happens when we conflate this division of tools with a need for a strong division of labor. Treating design and engineering as two completely separate processes leads to an […]
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25 May, 2023
Sometimes the job is an assembly line
I really enjoyed this post from Dave about the different kinds of work folks can encounter. I also want to acknowledge that sometimes the job is an assembly line. Times exist when you need to slow down, think, explore, and use the […]
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11 Jun, 2019
Rethinking designer-developer collaboration
My design partner in crime Dan Mall and I were interviewed on the Design Better podcast about breaking down barriers between designers and developers. Give ‘er a listen here.
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27 Aug, 2018
The presence prison – Signal v. Noise
As a general rule, nobody at Basecamp really knows where anyone else is at any given moment. Are they working? Dunno. Are they taking a break? Dunno. Are they at lunch? Dunno. Are they picking up their kid from school? […]
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22 Nov, 2016
Frontend Guidelines Exercise
I’m helping my client’s web development team establish some frontend guidelines as we roll up our sleeves to build a new website from the ground up. We’ve done a projects together in the past, but (naturally) they were on pretty […]