Building better
The conversation around developer experience has changed. These days, it isn’t just the efforts of a particular team or a particular set of tools that set engineers up for success—it’s equally about the cross-functional culture, principles, and processes that drive a company as a whole. Whether you’re building dev tools or collaborating with your development team, it’s time to go a level deeper on these dynamics. We brought product builders together in five cities and invited leaders at Atlassian , Linear , and Visual Studio Code to break down the methodologies guiding their work.
The inner loop
Nothing breaks productivity quite like context switching. VS Code offers advice for keeping developers in the flow by protecting heads-down work in the code editor (the “inner loop”) and minimizing how often they toggle into fragmented tasks like tracking bugs, answering tickets, and meeting with collaborators (the “outer loop”).
Opinionated software
The best tools have a point of view—at least according to Linear, where strong beliefs guide the product experience and create default workflows for users. We sat down with one of the company’s co-founders and its CEO to learn when it’s beneficial to go against the grain.
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10 lessons on Dev Mode
After a year of using Dev Mode, Decathlon’s Engineering Manager shares 10 best practices for teams looking to align their design and development workflows. Step one? Start small and go for quick wins.
Laurent Thiebault of Decathlon and Romain Dao of The Cacatoès Theory share the impact Dev Mode has had on their designer-developer collaboration (French only)
Let’s hang
We had a blast co-hosting our Seattle developer event with Amazon Web Services, and hope to see you when we team up again for our design systems engineering meetup in Chicago on October 23 .
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Maintenance Manager
1 周Thank you for sharing
Design Lead @ Capital One
1 个月I love the ideas and can really resonate with the effort Figma is putting in order to close to gap between developers and designers. Improving the developer experience is very important to building quality products - any effort to reduce friction is a step in the right direction
Website Development & Digital Marketing | Entrepreneur, Marketer, Web Developer, PhD student in business automation and digitalization.
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Senior Graphic Designer at Mitchell & Stones | Friends of Figma Southampton UK Leader
1 个月Keen to learn more about Dev Mode's impact on designer-developer collaboration ??
Design leader at SageSure
1 个月The ideas are good, essential really, but I have to say, it's a bit much coming from Figma now that they are banking on all of the revenue they see coming from reselling you dev tools. Suddenly *now* the conversation is changing around collaboration and the developer experience?