Designing in the Build

1 · Steve Smith · May 22, 2015, midnight
I don’t know how to design software without building it. I said it. Maybe that means my design skills need to be better. Sure, I’ll start with sketches or mockups. But very quickly, I’ll move into the build. Sometimes that might be a quick prototype in HTML/CSS. Maybe it’s a prototype in JavaScript and Electron. Maybe it’s a new Rails app just to try out an idea. Maybe it’s building the full feature into the production code. But whatever it is, I’ve got to get it off pixels and into code. No am...