Design for your engineer

Part I: Bridging design tooling and web technology

Jory Tindall

Communication barriers between designers and engineers still exist.
Shifting between a design and engineering mindset helps to better communicate design intent.
Having a basic cross-disciplinary understanding ships better products and experiences.
Everybody is responsible for designing the experience.

But more importantly, why does this talk exist?

Even though design tooling has made significant advances in recent years, communication between designers and engineers is still challenging.
As tooling evolves, shifting between a design and engineering mindset (even in a basic sense) helps to better communicate design intent.
Understanding what how an engineering partner is going to implement something helps us as designers to more effectively hand-off our designs and ship better products and experiences.
Controversial take: Everybody is responsible for the experience, we just contribute differently to the resulting UX. Design is about solving problems, each discipline solves problems differently, but we all contribute to the end result to solve a user need and problem.

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"Without ~~family~~ the DOM, you've got nothing."

Document Object Model (DOM): the data representation of the objects that comprise the structure and content of a document on the web. (Source)