Although postmortems are one of the most powerful learning tools in product development, most teams haven't yet discovered how to use them effectively.
The infamous developer-designer relationship doesn’t need to be toxic. Design and development teams should approach collaboration as coowners of the product experience.
Wireflows combine wireframes with flowcharts to help document user interactions. They can aid in team collaboration, developer handoff, and help ensure clear communication for complex interactions.
Overreliance on frameworks as universal solutions rather than adaptable starting points undermines critical thinking and threatens our field's intellectual rigor.
Avoid disorganized files, late dev collaboration, unclear updates, scattered conversations, and assumptions over communication during spec’ing to ensure smoother implementation.
Identifying objects, their characteristics, and relationships in an experience can help simplify designs and make systems easier to use by aligning with people's mental models. (Credit: Sophia Prater)
