At the YOW! Connected conference, Craig sits down with Chris van Raay and Tom Brodhurst-Hill and talks about bridging the gaps between developers and designers:

• Chris van Raay talk “Bridging the Designer – Developer Divide“
• Tom Brodhurst-Hill talk “Design Driven Mobile Development“
• Typically most organisations have separated development and design teams which results in a very linear process
• Need simple design documentation as a “single source of truth” because you shouldn’t need to specify styles more than once and it helps reduce effort and obtain a consistent design
• Use tools such as PaintCode to create a colour palette which serves as documentation as well as a static analysis test
• Need leadership to ensure there is an agreed approach, set the standards and create discipline
• When building features need to decide when to leave work that is consistent across features, in relation to design, this should be a special amendment to the definition of done
• Process can get in the way of achieving good things sometimes
• Small thin slices do not work well for design, UX flow is the bare minimum you need, then you can have separate threads of development for front end and back end and evolve the app over time

TheAgileRevolution-115 (24 minutes)