I’ve been in this job for years, it made me an animal. It’s rules to this work, I wrote me a manual, a step-by-step booklet for you to get your UI on track, not your work pushed back.
This is the 10 frontend commandments:
- Number 1: UI demands satisfaction, if the stakeholders like the current version, no need for further action.
- Number 2: If the designer presents hard things, grab the stakeholder as your second, they just want things shipped asap, so they will be your Lieutenant, when there's reckoning to be reckoned.
- Number 3: Make the designers and stakeholders meet face to face, they can negotiate a simpler UI solution, or an extension in the deadline.
- Number 4: After the agreement, talk with the backends. Always request in advance, treat them with civility, but really pay attention so they can’t have deniability.
- Number 5: Deploy before the sun is in the sky, users see UI bugs quickly, so always deploy in off-time.
- Number 6: Always leave notes in the tickets, tell them what you did and who took the decisions.
- Number 7: This rule is so underrated, always test in all view resolutions and with throttling in network and CPU, so you can perceive the performance in low end devices.
- Number 8: If the deadline is close and the work remaining is high, it’s your last chance to negotiate. Focus on the important features and user flows, leave the non-important ones for later.
- Number 9: Number nine should be number one for me, if you don’t want to get bagged, stay close to the QAs, deploy soon, fix fast and be ready to deliver.
- Number 10: A strong word called commitment, take care with the ‘yes’ you say, if the work will take more time than your boss wants, be honest and say ‘no’ or a real estimation, it’s better say 1 week and deliver in 4 days, then say 1 day and deliver in 4.