12 Developer choices and user experience

This chapter covers

  • Viewing code as a part of the cycle of design
  • Making key code decisions based on how they affect user experience
  • Assessing how you can build resilient web experiences with an HTML base

From the start of a project’s planning phase, developers should be given a seat at the table. The code developers write is what brings a design to life. Without the code you write, there would be no user experience to focus on improving. Without code, our designs for our apps and websites would be static pieces that we could look at but not interact with. Development is a part of the design process because the technical choices you make as a developer critically affect the user experience being built. ...

Get Design for Developers now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.