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Their wordsI say all the time that the users never see the Figma files. Like, your design quality and your design capabilities of your team is only as good as the UI engineers that are implementing it.
Their wordsYou might not be able to say what looks different, but you can see that it looks different. And I think the key factor is what makes a good designer a great designer is being able to tell you what the difference is.
Their wordsI think teams can invest too quickly in design systems, both in Figma and in code. There are a lot of early decisions that get made that are easy to either overthink or over-optimize. And the way that we have approached it is kind of designing for what we need at that time. Reusing that design or component a few times before codifying it, especially in code.
Their wordsI just really don't want to build a new dashboard behind a feature flag and one day flip it over. I'd much rather give users that value now and those improvements now and deal with the inconsistencies
Their wordsI have a big issue with deadlines. Setting a deadline is going to either allow the person to stretch out that amount of work over that period of time or have to eventually de-scope the project to be able to meet that arbitrary deadline.
Their wordsfocusing on hiring the right people for the job and just letting them do their job. You think that they're the best person for this, so don't question what they're doing. Then the velocity's higher, the pride is higher, and I think you just get to where you want to be quicker.
Their wordsIf you are a designer that is building web applications, learn a little bit of HTML, learn a bit, a little bit of CSS. If you are a mobile designer working on just iOS apps, write a little bit of Swift code, learn a little bit of Swift.