Design-Engineering Workflow

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DESIGN↔ ENGINEERING WORKFLOW Festive Londroid, 2014

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LUCAS ROCHA +LucasRocha | @lucasratmundo

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THE GAP * Mockups Specs ... Code Layout ... DESIGN DESIGN DEV DEV

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UNNATURAL Translation from design to implementation.

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DISCONNECTED Visual reference not usable in the dev tools.

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JUMP! Code generation, visual tools, unicorns.

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CODE MATTERS i.e. you'll have to maintain this thing.

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TOOLS MATTER It takes time to master design and developer tools.

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COMPLEXITY Codegen and visual tools fall apart in complex projects.

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DOMAIN Assets, layout & motion.

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BRIDGE ↔ Mockups Specs ... Code Layout ... DEV DESIGN

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I/O Designers deliver native input for developer tools.

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dspec Define and render UI specs on top of Android UIs. http://github.com/lucasr/dspec

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WORKFLOW ↔ Specs Code Layout Spec file DEV DESIGN

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SPEC FILE Computer and human readable. Leans on the resource system.

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SPEC FILE { "baselineGridVisible": true, "baselineGridCellSize": 8, "keylines": [ { "offset": 16, "from": "LEFT" }, { "offset": 16, "from": "RIGHT" } ], "spacings": [ { "offset": 0, "size": 16, "from": "LEFT" }, { "offset": 0, "size": 16, "from": "RIGHT" } ] }

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DESIGN SPEC Drawable that can be overlaid on any part of the UI.

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ANDROID STUDIO Maybe a design-time attribute? tools:designSpec=”@raw/myspec”

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ASSETS Scalable atlas to autogenerate drawables in multiple densities? State list drawable in Sketch/PS? http://github.com/lucasr/dspec

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