One of the recurring items on the “What went well” column of our agile retro board is “UX-Dev collaboration”. So I thought I’d share some of our practices.
- High fidelity UI mockups (including loading, error and empty states) created in Figma before story kickoff.
- Cross-platform consistency, responsiveness, and accessibility is a part of the internal delivery criteria for every story.
- Both UX and devs understand the concept of an MVP and manage scope and expectations accordingly.
- Both UX and devs trust the agile process to fix imperfections in future iterations.
- Devs frequently post video demos and screenshots of work in progress in Slack.
- UX provides feedback based on testing pre-production builds on a physical device.
- Devs clearly communicate implementation challenges and UX are prompt to suggest alternatives.
- UX and devs work together to standardize UI components and document platform specific quirks.
