Working With Engineers

Summary

Understanding basic technical constraints (what's easy versus hard to build) and involving engineers early, rather than treating handoff as a one-way delivery of a finished design.

• 1Ask an engineer what makes a design easy versus difficult to implement.
• 2Practice presenting a design's intent and flexibility, not just a rigid final pixel spec.
• 3Learn to be open to a technical constraint reshaping a design, without losing the core user goal.