Digital designers and developers represent two halves of the same coin.

While it seems like designers and devs speak two different languages, they’re both an integral part of creative project work. The best creative projects result from splitting up the workload but maintaining a close relationship between everyone on the team.

In the enterprise, effective communication can be difficult considering the sheer size of teams and unfortunate reality of bureaucracy. But communication is a vital piece to every successful project. Although designers may not fully understand the development cycle, it’s important that they treat developers as members of the same product team – otherwise your design will fall victim to unnecessary compromises and nasty surprises.

In this book, we’ll cover practical tips for designers who want to work more closely with developers. Every creative project follows a series of stages from brainstorming to releasing the final deliverables.