Fatten up those T's

by Mark Otto

Highly focused specialists vs. generalist  specialists

A T-shaped designer

Fattening up a T

How this can be applied at DockYard

Design → UX dev → Engineering

Things that have improved

Layer comps with state changes

Designing for more situations

Real copy

Icons

Pseudo code comments

The dot system

Red - UX dev don't start yet

Green - UX dev good to go

Purple - UX dev has completed

Blue - Design has changed since UX dev completed

Things that can be improved 

Style guides

Colors

http://sassme.arc90.com/

Naming of files and folders

Signify non-obvious links

Things I'm not sure how to improve

Missed hard-coded elements

Private discussions where changes are made, but are not tracked

Max/min text lengths