Designers Enable a Great Developer Experience

The Covid situation gave a push for the companies to create better ways to work, especially remotely. Even before the pandemic, Developer Experience started to spread in the digital industry. For developers, many common pain points, use cases, and user journeys are recognized. There are many solutions in the markets which offer tools and platforms for the developers, e.g., to improve their efficiency and productivity.

How can designers help to improve the Developer Experience?

• They are the experts researching user, and developers’ needs.
• They are experts in drafting user journeys and recognizing pain points.
• They are experts in breaking the user journey into sections and creating a smooth pass through the stages that consider different types of touchpoints.

The Designers should treat the developers are any other users in any other projects. This might be challenging as the users are very close to the challenge, and already have new solutions clearly defined in their heads. But this situation is undoubtedly where the designers are needed – to bring people’s ideas together and steer the ideation towards common technical, social, and communal solutions.

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