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Bryce Howitson
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The Great Divide: Decoding the Design vs. Dev Dictionary
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Transcript
The Great Divide : Decoding the Design vs. Dev Dictionary
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Designer Mindset: Striving for perfection: I’m creating the happy path,
ideal flow, optimal layout, slickest interaction or best experience.
Exceptional Exceptions: Handling the edge: I want to know what
to do when things break. How can I anticipate and reduce errors?
Hubert Blaine Wolfe schlegel stein hausen berger dorff
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Well !@%$#&*
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- Empathy - Storytelling - Research Techniques - Identify Friction
(feeling) - Visual Design Theory - Visual Prototyping - Systems Thinking - Logic Chains - Common points of failure - Math - Technology Platforms - Code Prototyping
How might I use my particular set of skills to
help my design/dev partners improve their output, foster trust and make better things?
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Speak the Language
Kern Ligature API White Space Persona Serif Hit Area MIME
Type Card Sort Loop Contrast Ratio Life cycle RAG CORS Unit Test Friction Multimodal Hallway Usability Pipeline Class Tokens Encoding IDE Vectors Onboarding SAML
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Share the Load
Designers: Provide User Context
Developers: Flag the Gaps
Designers: Ask for a Map
Developers: Tag Along
Both: Share Data Proactively
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