The Arc of Collaboration - kwokchain

Designers and developers are willing to collaborate but are facing key challenges:

• Their tools are not connected (Figma for designers | Microsoft Visual Studio and Github for developers)


• They don’t speak the same language


• Design tools produce images that developers have to translate into code


• It’s impossible to preserve a brand identity across all its

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Great quote: “The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures”. I would add: it’s not just data structures, but information representations that expose those data structures in an intuitive way. Intuitive how? In that the graphical representation and interactive controls provide a transparent interface to the un... See more

One valid criticism that the distributed work trend often receives is that there are too many companies focused on the “easy” stuff — building a new collaboration product, for example — and not enough time laying down the difficult infrastructure needed to make the situation workable for a significant enough number of people.