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Let's talk about the designer hand off or working with developers now, the traditional way that designers

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would work with developers was in what we call a silo that is a designer would just work by themselves.

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And then once they're done, they just hand off the designs to a developer.

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And the developer just had to create these pixel perfect products based on those designs.

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Now, this process isn't always the best, mainly because there's a lack of communication between developers

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and designers.

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Ideas can be really shared between one another.

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Maybe a designer is the only one that talks to the client and the developer has no idea what the client

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wants.

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So it is more and more common to see designers work much more collaboratively with developers working

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in teams, maybe with product managers, with developers, with scrum masters, so that everybody works

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together to complete this cycle that we see here.

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And because we always have this post launch phase where we have to iterate and learn and constantly

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improve the product.

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Now, for a developer, it's really, really hard to go from design to actually building the product,

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using something like a programming language.

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Now, at the same time, a designer might wonder why this developer can't do something that they have

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designed or why this developer created something that is different or slightly different than what they

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design.

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So the key to a successful designer developer handoff is as a designer to always keep the developer

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in mind.

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So as a designer, it's actually good for you to speak with developers and design things based on what

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can technically be done.

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Design effectively for the platform that you're building in.

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A developer should know enough about design theory to collaborate and have a mutual language that both

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can speak together.

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This idea of mutual understanding and respect is the key to collaboration because at the end of the

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day, you're working together to solve a problem for a user.

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So by you as a designer, learning what a developer has to do, you're going to be a lot better at communicating

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with developers and vice versa, which is why we've included in the upcoming sections how e-mail works,

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how you might be able to put a website online so that when you work closely with a developer, as you

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said, you're able to understand what they do, how they work, but also gives you that flexibility

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to potentially build your own products, be your own designer and developer.

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Now, personally, I love this quote and not sure who said it.

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I've modified it a little bit, but this is generally just good advice when working with anybody.

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Always design as if the person who ends up maintaining your work will be a violent psychopath, who

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knows where you live.

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It's always important to think about who you're working with and who you're designing for so that everybody

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ends up happy.

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So let's learn a little bit about the web development world in the next couple of sections.