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At my company we have never had an issue between design and development. Our designers are on the same team as the developers, so we all talk to one another thr

At my company we have never had an issue between design and development. Our designers are on the same team as the developers, so we all talk to one another throughout the day. The tech difference between using Github and Figma isn't a big deal, Figma for the most part put the right buttons in the right places so developers can glean all the right information from a piece of UI to build it (at least in my work building webapps). I would say the biggest thing we do differently than other places is collaboration with design is happening before any lines of code are written. Design will ask us what UI framework we are planning on using, or if we are planning on just using regular CSS. From there designers will create designs based on the principles of that framework. From there we start building the project and import all the colors, spacing, and other variables from Figma. The actual development is the last step but by then we already know what we are building and have the building blocks in place to make building it straightforward.

psyc 4y ago
I'm a developer and I've seldom or never had any problem with designers. It's cliche to say it's communication, but that's what it is. How? Nothing is ever just handed off. We talk about everything. Not only in meetings. We spend plenty of one on one time at each others desks. I don't condescend to them, I explain things from my end. They don't condescend to me, they explain things from their end. We're both working on the same thing, not different things. The way I look at it, you've either hired people who give respect to other people, or you haven't. If it's the latter, oops.