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By Jean-Rémy Duboc.
Software modelling and design - designers should code, and vice-versa
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Listening to the latest 37signal podcast episode, I reflected on the artificial separation (often to the point of hermetical confinment) between interface design and code in the software creation process.
At 37signals, Ryan Singer encourages designers to know enough about Ruby on Rails to change the interface themselves instead of relying on programmers.
Image of Ryan Singer
It's completely key that the designers are working in source code. I can't conceive any other way of working, because with applications the cost of having somebody translate all of the designs is too high. [...]
It means that you can't change things. It's really adding too much friction and weight in the feedback cycle.
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