X.5.2 · Skill in Collaboration

Working with designers

Collaborating on experience from early ideas to polished details.

Designers and engineers work best when they explore early together. Engineers who understand design basics give better feedback and implement intent, not only pixels. Design systems are a shared language.

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Resources

articleStart here
UX prototypes: low fidelity vs. high fidelity ↗
NN/g · 2016 · 13 min
How much detail a prototype needs for what you want to learn, from paper sketches to clickable mockups.
bookGo deeper
Atomic design ↗
Brad Frost · 2016 · free online book
The book that shaped how teams build design systems, free to read online.

Tools

ToolFreemium
Figma
figma.com ↗
Collaborative interface design and prototyping in the browser, the industry default.
ToolOpen source
Storybook
storybook.js.org ↗
Open-source workshop for building, documenting and testing UI components in isolation.