Developers are from Mars and designers are from Venus, or so it would seem. Working together to make great products for our users can be challenging. This talk gives practical advice for bringing developers into the design process and thinking like a developer in your own design process.

1. UX DEVB R I D G I N G T H E G A P
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2. UX vs DEV: Bridging the Gap
Hello.
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“A unicorn is somebody who
knows they're magical and isn't
afraid to show it.”
– Urban Dictionary
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“The rare creature who is able to
give you the thing you always
wanted but thought you you
could never have.”
– Urban Dictionary
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– Urban Dictionary
“A bisexual but single female in
a swingers party.”
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“Magical creatures that rides on
silver moonbeams and shoots
rainbows out of their asses.”
– Urban Dictionary
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WHAT I MEAN
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“The unicorn designer is the most in demand
and rarest of product team members —
someone with excellent interaction
design skills, visual design skills, and
coding ability.”
– UsabilityCounts.com “The Unicorn Designer Dilemma, and How to Avoid It”
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The Problems
Bad design implementations
Cutting features
“Fixing” the design in review sessions with the client
Devs who really want to be designers
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“Just make the site pretty!“
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Overlapping Responsibilities
User Research
Information
Architecture
Content
Strategy
Visual Design
Back-end
Development
Front-end
Development
Technology
Infrastructure
Business
Goals
Discovery
Interaction
Design
DEVUX
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HOW DO WE FIX IT?
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“You can’t convince someone to do
something they don’t want to do. You
can only show them the benefits of
what you are selling.”
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EMPATHY
Devs building a must build within a budget/time constraints too
2 min decisions for designer can be the difference
between a 2 hour or 80 hour implementation for a dev
Timelines are tight, they often won't have time
to come back to design with questions
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BRING DEVS INTO THE
DESIGN PROCESS
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Highly Interactive Devs
Bring them into design sketching workshops.
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Typical Devs
Bring them into early review sessions
& research findings presentations.
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Grumpy Cave Dwelling Devs
You can't win them all, and that's okay!
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DESIGN LIKE A DEV
Solutions that don’t require audience participation
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Style Guides
Awesome! Wait, don’t we already do this?
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"Microinteractions is a book I've wanted for
a very long time. I've needed a thoughtful,
insightful, and concise understanding of
how to look at interaction design at the
atomic level. Dan's delivered that in
spades."
– Jared Spool, Founding Principle of User Interface Engineering
“Microinteractions: Designing with Details”
by Dan Saffer
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Atomic Design
Brad Frost - http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/
Using chemistry to create design systems
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Atomic Design Elements
Brad Frost - http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/
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Let’s Bridge the Gap
(Groan. Did he really use the title of the presentation?)
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Ezekiel “Zeke” Binion
 @ebinion
✉ ebinion@gmail.com
🌎 ezekielbinion.com
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